Tehran University Students Gather in Protest Over Detained Journalist Morvarid Amiri’s Condition

A group of students from Tehran University held a protest gathering in response to the lack of information about the condition of Morvarid Amiri, a journalist for Shargh newspaper.

The Telegram channel of the Free Union of Workers reported that a number of Tehran University students gathered on the thirty-third day of Morvarid Amiri’s detention, the Shargh newspaper journalist, at the Student Affairs Organization to protest the lack of information about this journalist’s condition.

According to the report, Mohammad Reza Alam, deputy of the Student Affairs Organization, promised the protesting students at the gathering that he would follow up on Morvarid Amiri’s condition through Gholamreza Ghaffari, the cultural and social deputy of the Ministry of Science.

Morvarid Amiri, a journalist and social sciences student at Tehran University, went to the Ministry’s detention center on International Workers’ Day to follow up on the condition of the detainees, where she was arrested and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Twenty days after Ms. Amiri’s arrest, a spokesperson for the judiciary declared her charges to be “security-related.”

This journalist and social sciences student at Tehran University was previously arrested on March 8, 2019, following her participation in a ceremony marking International Women’s Day along with dozens of others, and was transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. She was also arrested during the nationwide protests in December 2017 and was interrogated for three days.

Source: Voice of America