NCRI – Criminal agents from the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) on Wednesday abandoned the bloodied corpse of Amin Zandi on a street located in the vicinity of the western city of Ilam. The coroner declared that he had died just 4 hours before his body was discovered.
Mr. Amin Zandi, a student at the University of Ilam, was originally from Ahvaz and was arrested by MOIS agents in an anti-government protest in June. During his four months of detention he was subjected to harassment and torture. The Iranian regime refused to respond to his families enquiries regarding his condition and whereabouts during this time.
In a similar crime, MOIS agents left the corpse of Mohamad-javad Parandakh, a fourth-year chemical engineering student at the Esfahan University of Technology, under one of the city’s bridges. The coroner in Esfahan declared that his death resulted from a skull fracture after he was hit by a heavy object.
Mohamad-javad Parandakh, a 23-year-old male student from the western province of Gilan-gharb, had been summoned to Esfahan’s MOIS office after participating in anti-regime protests. He was killed under torture by MOIS henchmen on the third day of his detention. His family found his body among abandoned bodies at the city’s coroner’s office. MOIS agents forced the family to say that a car accident caused his death.
The Iranian Resistance calls on international human rights organizations, particularly the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, to take immediate and binding measures to deal with the deterioration of prison conditions and to free political prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 11, 2009