RAHANA Prisoners’ Rights Unit- Eyewitnesses have seen Alireza Firooozi and Soorna Hashemi inside an Evin ward in the last few days. Both student activists disappeared on January 2, 2010, while on a trip to Tabriz. All signs pointed to an arrest by authorities.
According to several prisoners who were released today, the two student activists were in an Evin ward 10 days ago but were later moved to an unknown location. Although, the family of the two prisoners were told by Evin and court officials that their sons were not detained in Evin.
Alireza’s family went to Evin prison last night hoping to obtain information from prisoners who were being released.
Upon seeing the photographs of the two students, eight prisoners who were recently released identified Soorna Hashemi. Although the freed prisoners did not have any information about Alireza Firoozi, it is quite likely that he is detained in Evin as well since the two activists were arrested while travelling together.
It is not clear at this point whether the two activists are detained in Evin or another prison. Earlier on, officers of the Tehran Police force concluded that Alireza was in Tehran by tracking the signal on his mobile phone.
Alireza & Soorna have not contacted their families since their arrest more than a month ago. During this time agents from the Ministry of Intelligence used their email information to check the contents of their accounts and chat online with their friends and families.
Alireza & Soorna were expelled from Zanjan University and detained after exposing a university official for sexual abuse.
Soorna Hashemi is a member of a liberal student organization and Alireza Firoozi is blogger-journalist and human rights activist.
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