Hamed Saremi, 32, and Shahla Saremi, 28, were arrested by intelligence ministry agents who raided their home on June 5 and transferred to ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison.
For almost three months, their family have been denied all visits and received no news of the fate of Hamed, a graduate in Industrial Management and Shahla, a public relations student at the University of Applied Science.
Their father Hassan, 54, is a children’s rights activist jailed for his beliefs in the 1980s. His brother Ali Saremi was also a political prisoner and supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who was executed in Evin prison in 2010.
The chief interrogator of the Saremis is a mullah and intelligence ministry official named as Alavi, known to have personally hanged Ali Saremi three years ago and committed repeated crimes against humanity in Evin prison since the 1980s.
The arrest of the Saremi children is latest in a catalogue of arrests of the families of political prisoners in attempts to force confessions from their loved ones already behind bars.