Benjamin Al-e Tayeb, a 20-year-old Electrical Engineering Student from Dezful University was arrested for unknown reasons and was transferred to the torture chambers of the regime’s intelligence headquarters in the city of Ahwaz, southwestern Iran.
Aydin Khajei, a Tabriz University student, was arrested on the same day. Aydin was arrested previously for operating a student weblog and was sentenced to one year in prison.
The whereabouts of Aydin Armankhah, another Tabriz University student, remains unknown since his arrest.
In Tehran, Masoud Kadkhodaei, Engineering student of Polytechnic University has recently been arrested. Ali Malihi and Mehdi Khodaie, while they have been in custody for the past four months, their situation remains uncertain.
There is no news of two Kurdish students of Tehran University, Amjad (Hazhir) Kurdnejad and Jamal Rahmati since May 31. It is said that they have been arrested by the agents of the mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and Special Rapporteur on torture, to take urgent measures to free all political prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 4, 2010