Eleven days have passed with no information about Ali Younesi, the imprisoned elite student who was abducted from Evin Prison, or about other detainees.
Amid the ongoing wave of repression in Iran’s prisons, Aida Younesi, sister of Ali Younesi — the imprisoned elite and top student from Sharif University — reported that there has been absolutely no news from her brother for eleven days.
Eleven days ago, Ali Younesi was abducted from the kitchen of Ward 4 in Evin Prison by intelligence agents, and since then, no information has been available about his condition or whereabouts.
According to Aida Younesi, intelligence agents told some of Ali’s cellmates that he had been temporarily transferred for “interrogation” and would return soon. However, nearly two weeks have passed with no news, and his family remains in complete distress.
She emphasized:
“This complete silence is unbearable. Where is Ali?”
At the same time as Ali Younesi’s abduction, many political prisoners — including Aida Younesi’s father — were transferred to the Greater Tehran Prison. According to families and human rights sources, conditions there are even worse than in Evin: shortages of water, food, and medicine, lack of phone access, and forced transfers without personal belongings.
Aida Younesi described this situation as a continuation of the Iranian regime’s crimes, stating that even after external attacks, the regime has intensified its internal war against the people and its opponents.
The “WhereIsOurPrisoner” campaign, now widely followed on social media, has become a symbol of protest by the families of prisoners who — amid repression and censorship — are forced to endure the disappearance of their loved ones with no answers.
While other female political prisoners held in Evin Prison were transferred to Qarchak Prison following the explosion and attack on June 23, no information has yet been released about Arghavan Fallahi, a political prisoner and supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Concerns over her well-being have increased.
Arghavan, her brother Ardavan, and their father Nasrollah Fallahi were arrested in November 2022 and faced severe charges of “moharebeh” (waging war against God) and “corruption on earth” through their support for the PMOI/MEK.
Iman Afshari, the head of Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, sentenced them and another co-defendant to eleven years in prison.
