NCRI – The family of Ibrahim Lotfollahi, a Kurdish student in Iran who died while in custody of the State Security Forces (SSF) in northern Kurdish city of Sanandaj, wants his body to be exhumed to determine the cause of death, their lawyer told Reuters on Sunday.
The 27-year-old student was arrested On January 6, and his parents were told on January 15 he was dead, even though he had seemed fine when they visited him a few days after his detention, the lawyer said.
When family members went to the city cemetery, they were informed that their son had already been buried and they were not able to see the corps. The family did not believe he had committed suicide as claimed by the Iranian regime and wants his body to be exhumed by a trusted physician.
In October Mrs. Zahra Bani-Ameri, a 27-year-old female physician, died in custody. Forty-eight hours after her arrest in a park in the western city of Hamedan, the mullahs’ local judiciary branch announced that Dr. Bani-Ameri committed suicide while in police custody. However, there are credible reports indicting that Ms. Bani-Ameri was tortured while in the SSF custody.
In July 2003, Ms. Zahra Kazami, the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist was arrested while taking pictures of a demonstration by the families of political prisoners outside the notorious Evin Prison. She was murdered under torture by the Iranian regime. Shortly after her death, the officials brazenly announced that "she died of a head injury which might be caused by an accident."
