{"id":7608,"date":"2026-05-16T07:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:33:38","slug":"arrest-of-amirhossein-rezaei-university-of-tehran-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/arrests\/arrest-of-amirhossein-rezaei-university-of-tehran-student","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Amirhossein Rezaei, University of Tehran Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"109\"><strong data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"80\">15 May 2026<\/strong><br data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"83\" \/><strong data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"109\">News Category: Arrests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"270\"><strong data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"140\">Breathing in Confinement:<\/strong> <strong>Amirhossein Rezaei,<\/strong> a political science student at the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">University of Tehran<\/span><\/span> and a journalist, has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"479\">According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&#8217; Rights League in Iran, <strong>Amirhossein Rezaei<\/strong> was arrested on 6 May following a raid by security forces on his home in the city of Arak.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"1077\">According to the published information, security agents entered his residence without presenting a judicial warrant, searched the home, and confiscated a number of his personal belongings, electronic devices, and books. Following his arrest, <strong>Mr Rezaei<\/strong> was transferred to an undisclosed location, and at the time of writing, no official information regarding his whereabouts, physical condition, or legal status has been made available. This situation constitutes<strong> enforced disappearance<\/strong> and a violation of the right to access legal counsel and for the family to be informed of the detainee\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1604\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The arrest comes amid growing reports of an intensifying security atmosphere in the country. Simultaneously with rising regional tensions and statements by some officials referring to a \u201cwartime posture,\u201d signs of increasing pressure on political and civil activists, as well as students, have emerged. In this context, reports have also indicated a rise in arbitrary arrests, an escalation in the issuance and implementation of death sentences, and the imposition of widespread and prolonged restrictions on internet access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 May 2026News Category: Arrests Breathing in Confinement: Amirhossein Rezaei, a political science student at the University of Tehran and a journalist, has been arrested. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners&rsquo; Rights League in Iran, Amirhossein Rezaei was arrested on 6 May following a raid by security forces on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Amir.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1YI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions\/7610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}