Aida Younesi, sister of Ali Younesi—a top student at Sharif University and a political prisoner—announced on her X account today, Wednesday, June 18, that agents of the Ministry of Intelligence forcibly abducted her brother from Ward 4 of Evin Prison and transferred him to an unknown location.
She expressed deep concern, writing: “My mother is having seizures from worry. We don’t know where they have taken Ali.”
Aida described this act as “shamelessness” and a sign of the regime’s “rage and resentment” toward political prisoners.
Ali Younesi, a gold medalist in the International Astronomy Olympiad and a computer engineering student at Sharif University, was arrested in March 2020 along with Amir Hossein Moradi on charges of “links with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)” and “spreading corruption on Earth.” In 2022, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
The two students have repeatedly been subjected to physical and psychological torture, including beatings and threats of execution, in an attempt to force them into making false confessions.
