The trial of Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi will be held on Saturday, July 3rd
3-July-2021
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2-July-2021
Newsgroup: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: The trial of Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, the detained students of Sharif University of Technology, will be held on Saturday, July 3. ” After more than 14 months, these two students are still being held in the security detention center of Evin Prison. And the officials refusal to transfer them to the public ward, has made it difficult to defend them,” said Mustafa Nili, their lawyer.
According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, yesterday Mostafa Nili, the lawyer of Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, the two detained students of Sharif University, announced that on Saturday, July 3, 2021, the court hearing on the charges of these two students Will be held.
Mustafa Nili wrote on his personal Twitter page: “I met with Ali Younesi today and we talked about the trial on Saturday, July 3rd. After more than 14 months, he and Amir Hossein Moradi are still being held in Security Ward 209 of Evin Prison, and the official’s refusal to transfer them to the public ward, has made it difficult to defend them. Unfortunately, at the request of the case officer, the officials have so far prevented their transfer to the public ward.”
The hearing on the charges against these two students, had been scheduled for April 10. However, as they were not sent to the court, the session was canceled. Mustafa Nili wrote: “As in this case, the charge against the defendants is corruption on earth, the legal principles for the hearing to be held, including presence of more than one judge as well as some other legal formalities have to be followed. However, even though we, the lawyers and the clients, had been notified of the hearing date, the defendants were not sent to court, and therefore, the hearing unfortunately, was not convened.”
Ali Younesi, a computer engineering student, and Amir Hossein Moradi, a physics student at Sharif University of Technology, were arrested on April 10, 2020, by the agents of Ministry of Intelligence, and were transferred to Evin Prison’s Ward 209, the Ministry’s Detention Center. While being arrested, the two students are said to have been beaten by the plainclothes agents who even refused to present an arrest warrant.
On May 5, 2020, the judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, accused these students of collaborating with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization.
It is worth mentioning that Amir Hossein Moradi is the winner of the silver medal of the 2017 National Astronomy Olympiad and Ali Younesi is the winner of the silver medal of the 2016 National Astronomy Olympiad as well as the gold medal of the 2017 Astronomy Olympiad. In addition, Ali Younesi has brought honor for Iran by winning a gold medal in the 12th World Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad held in China.