Breathing in Confinement: Reza Younesi, brother of Ali Younesi, a detained student at Sharif University, reported that security forces were trying to trick Ali Younesi into obtaining a forced confession under the pretext of meeting with the Swedish ambassador or officials.<\/p>\n
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran; Reza Younesi wrote on his twitter account:\u201d Last week, interrogators tried to deceive Ali with offering him to visit Sweden Embassy in Tehran and have a conversation with the Swedish ambassador & some other diplomats. Ali refused and said he will not attend any meeting until he has access to own lawyer\u201d.<\/p>\n
Reza Younesi denied the existence of such a meeting by the Swedish embassy and wrote:\u201d I\u2019ve informed Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Iran intelligence service is abusing of the title of Swedish ambassador& embassy in Iran for forced confessions & recording of televised confession\u201d<\/p>\n
Reza Younesi pointed to the interrogators’ new methods of obtaining forced confessions from Ali and his friend Amir Hossein Moradi and said:\u201d Although the deception of “meeting w\/ Swedish diplomats” did not succeed, they are still using threats & deception to make televised confession. They have threatened that if Ali & his friend do not confess, they will receive heavy sentences in court\u201d.
\nIt needs to be mentioned that Ali Younesi, a gold medalist of the World Astronomy Olympiad, and Amir Hossein Moradi, a silver medalist of the National Astronomy Olympiad, have been detained since April 10, 2020, and are being held in Ward 209 in Evin Prison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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