Mir Yousef Younesi

Mir Yousef Younesi is a former political prisoner living in Tehran. He is the father of Ali Younesi, another political prisoner in Evin Prison. Mr. Younesi was once again arrested in March 2022 by the security forces.

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<coverage-outsourcing id='48022'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%b9%d9%84%db%8c-%db%8c%d9%88%d9%86%d8%b3%db%8c/'> Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, two students at the Sharif University of Technology, were arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) agents without a warrant. Ali was handcuffed and taken to his family home. The agents beat them, and Ali’s forehead was split open with a gash and blood all over his face. The agents searched the house and confiscated a number of his and his family's belongings; communication equipment and his father's car were among the recording equipment. They were transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Section 209 in Evin Prison. The IRGC agents interrogated Ali Younesi’s parents for about five hours. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48023'> <reference source='https://t.me/bbcpersian/66520'> Gholamhossein Esmaili, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson, accused Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi of collaborating with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MKO) at a news conference and "Explosive devices" were found in their home. "This claim is false and ridiculous," said Aida Younesi, condemning the charge. "These are part of your tactics." She added. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48024'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/YounesiAida/status/1257701661574823938?s=20'> "My parents have had some contacts with the Mojahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO) before. The security system is using it against my family," Reza Younesi, Ali Younesi's brother, told BBC Persian. Mr. Younesi's family has insisted that "Ali has not been involved in any political activity." Ali Younesi's parents were accused of "obtaining money from MKO" about ten years ago by the security services. They were acquitted after 40 days of interrogation. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48025'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/IranIntl/status/1260200439808745478?s=20'> The Younesi family has been threatened by security agencies and people defending the government, known as "fire at will." "In addition to directly threatening other family members, they said they would kill Ali Younesi.", Reza Younesi told Iran International TV. Aida Younesi has also been threatened with death and sexual harassment. The evidence of harassment was handed over to the British police and the Iranian section of the Swedish Foreign Ministry. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48026'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/RezaYounesi/status/1518704019883102210?s=20&t=vhe3D_qZBfK8L8uP1AmzNA'> During the fourth month of their detention, several senior Ministry of Intelligence agents, Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, went to their homes. Aware of the mental state of the accused and their family members, which resulted from four months of detention and harassment, the agents intended to force them to comply with the demands of the Ministry of Intelligence by putting them under emotional pressure. The Ministry of Intelligence asked them to express their remorse, accept the charges and cooperate with this security agency. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48027'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3vDJhrf'> According to the Tasnim news agency, Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi were sentenced to 16 years in prison by Branch 29 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. According to the verdict, they were sentenced to ten years in prison for sabotaging public property (Article 687 of the Penal Code) and five years in prison for Assembly and collusion to carry out acts against national security (Article 610 of the Penal Code). They have been sentenced to one year in jail on charges of propaganda against the regime (Article 500 of the Penal Code). Ten years of this sentence will apply to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='54282'> <reference source='http://tinyurl.com/4aa5envk'> Mehr, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic Propaganda Organization, wrote that Ali Younesi's father, Mir Yousef Younesi, previously in 1984, had "a record of arrest due to terrorist acts and membership in the Organization of the MKO" and for this charge, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison, of which he served three years in prison, but was pardoned and later released. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48029'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/RezaYounesi/status/1518703862466629636?s=20&t=G3-CXco34r1vxap1k3ra4A'> Ali Younesi's brother, Reza Younesi, wrote on Twitter that the Ministry of Intelligence had repeatedly asked Ali and Amir Hossein and their families to cooperate with the security agents during the two years of temporary detention. The agents put them under pressure to express remorse and accept some charges. Reza Younesi continued: > [Intelligence Ministry officials] said that this case has grown and gone out of hand, and if we fall short, the regime will look bad and have a weak stance. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48030'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/MostafaNili58/status/1533778464561676289?s=20&t=HopPvuGPGM0NSayl3aVKXw'> Mostafa Nili announced that the initial verdict of both his clients, Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi was approved by the 36th branch of the Tehran appeal court verbatim. The two were initially sentenced to 16 years in prison each. By applying article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, they both will serve the maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48031'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/RezaYounesi/status/1608066333517701122?s=20'> Mir Yousef Younesi was arrested by the security forces in Shahroud. Reza Younesi said on Twitter that his father was arrested without an arrest warrant. It seems the Ministry of Intelligence was behind the arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48032'> According to Reza Younesi, seven agents barged into their home and took the personal belongings of the family including laptops and cell phones. he said the agents insulted his mother and had an altercation with her which led to her convulsion. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='54280'> <reference source='http://tinyurl.com/4u89zv4j'> The Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic announced in a statement that the security officials claimed to have identified a network to finance the operations of the People's Mojahedin Organization. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48037'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/YounesiAida/status/1611128476576190467'> His daughter Ayda Younesi reported on her Twitter page that his father's condition in solitary at Evin Prison's ward 240 is worrying. She said her father told her mother in a phone call: > For a week now 10 or 12 interrogators, using all sorts of sexual insults, ask me to accept baseless charges. She also said her father has been in solitary since his arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48038'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/RezaYounesi/status/1614747909957746689'> Mir Yousef Younesi's son Reza Younesi reported on his Twitter page that three of his father's colleagues have been arrested and the Intelligence Ministry agents are trying to make up a case against him. Reza Younesi reported: > At the same time as my father's arrest, three of his colleagues were arrested that morning and were released later that day. Intelligence Ministry agents barged into the house of one of these colleagues and force him and his wife in front of the TV and put it on the MKO (Mojahedin Khalgh) channel and filmed them watching it. Then they took this colleague of my father to their office (which had been sealed that morning) and told him to sit behind his desk and do his daily work in a normal fashion so that the agents can film a scene where they barge in and arrest him. These are all scenes that will be used in a propaganda film that the Intelligence Ministry is making. Reza Younesi believes these actions are all part of an Intelligence Ministry operation to frame his father. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48039'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/YounesiAida/status/1618702319331459072'> His daughter Ayda Younesi reported that her father has told them in a phone call that he is being held in a solitary cell in ward 240 of Evin Prison. She reported that Mir Yousef Younesi is "being denied medication and his health is at risk". She also said he is being denied access to attorney and family visits. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48040'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/YounesiAida/status/1629870163125215237'> Ayda Younesi announced on twitter that it has been two months since his father's arrest and during this whole time he has been held in solitary, first in ward 240 and later in ward 209 of Evin Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='48346'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/RezaYounesi/status/1631039936823455746'> Mir Yousef Younesi was transferred to a cell with three cellmates in ward 209. His son Reza Younesi reported on Twitter that after 63 days in solitary, his father was transferred to a small cell in ward 209 with three other cellmates. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='49003'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/42cC80A'> The Islamic Republic of Iran state TV aired the forced confessions of Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi in a program titled "Handmade Crime Documentary" and accused them of "destroying several Basij bases". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='50541'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/RezaYounesi/status/1646610539534008320'> After enduring more than three months of detention in the solitary cell of the security ward Mir Yousef Younesi was transferred to the general population ward of Evin prison. Reza Younesi, the son of Mir Yousef Younesi, posted a tweet on his user page and wrote: > Today, after 107 days of detention in the solitary cells of Ward 240 and 209 and then in the multi-person closed cells of Ward 209 of Evin Prison, Mir Yousef Younesi was transferred to the general ward of Evin Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='51921'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/news-1/117295'> Ali Younisi, Mir Yousef Younesi, Amirhossein Moradi, Seyed Javad Seyedi, Kamyar Fakour and Arash Johari were banned from visitation. According to IranWire, the ban on visiting these prisoners was imposed by the order of the head of ward 4 of Evin prison. Jafar Ebrahimi and Rasoul Bodaghi, two imprisoned teachers in this ward, have also refused to go to the meeting hall in support of these prisoners. IranWire quoted an informed source in this connection and wrote: > The head of Ward 4 of Evin prison has clearly stated before that he has a problem with political prisoners, and since visitation is a privilege for a prisoner, he has the right to deny them of it whenever he wants. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='53374'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/YounesiAida/status/1724535836455096568?s=20'> Ayda Younesi announced that she had received the court summons for her father. In a post on X, she wrote: > My father, Mir Yousef Younsi, who has been in temporary detention since 10 months ago, has received a notice for a court hearing, while he has been suffering from damage and deafness in one ear for all these 10 months, and he has been deprived of the right to treatment and access to a lawyer. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='54060'> <reference source='https://x.com/RezaYounesi/status/1740469805575295361?s=20'> Despite the fact that a year has passed since his arrest, he is still in Evin prison. Ayda Younesi, daughter of Mir Yousef Younesi, wrote in her user account on X that her father has completely lost hearing in one ear in the past year and his other ear is also hearing impaired, and despite the need for treatment, he is opposed to being sent to the hospital. According to Ayda Younesi: > In the last few weeks, they promised many times that they would take my father to a specialist doctor, and my mother made an appointment for treatment every time she went to the doctor, but every time they canceled sending him for treatment at the last minute." Reza Younesi, another son of Mir Yousef Younesi, also wrote on X social network that these appointments were canceled while the doctor of Evin prison confirmed the impossibility of treating his father in prison. Mr. Younesi wrote that this action by the prison officers is a "disturbing tactic by the Ministry of Intelligence of the Iranian regime to abuse his father. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='54171'> <reference source='http://tinyurl.com/bd663nff'> The 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Iman Afshari, held a hearing on the case of Mir Yousef Younesi without his presence. Reza Younesi, the son of Mir Yousef Younesi, announcing this news to IPA, stated that the reason for his father's absence at the court session was his resistance to the mandate of wearing prison uniforms. Reza Younesi also wrote on his user account on X: > The entire content of the case is based on the claim of the interrogators based on a payment of 130 million rials to Mr. B... and that Mr. B... paid money to one of the protesters." This is despite the fact that the son of Mir Yousef Younesi wrote, not only his father has repeatedly denied "paying money to the mentioned person , but his interrogators have not yet provided a document to prove this claim. Mir Yousef Younesi has been accused by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of assembly and collusion to disrupt security. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='54549'> <reference source='https://x.com/RezaYounesi/status/1744838793239085220?s=20'> Mir Yousef Younesi's son, Reza Younesi, wrote on his personal account on X that the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Iman Afshari, sentenced his father to five years of imprisonment on the charge of assembly and collusion, without providing any evidence to prove this charge. Mr. Younesi wrote about the court session presided over by Judge Afshari and in the absence of Mir Yousef Younesi: > He was not taken to the court session due to his refusal to wear prison clothes, an issue that angered the "judge" Iman Afshari, and he insulted him with words - which he and his leader and their system deserve - and he practically did not allow lawyers to defend him." Reza Younesi added that the lawyers objected to the Ministry of Intelligence's failure to provide evidence, but Afshari rejected the objection and issued a conviction based on the "report of the officers . Mr. Younesi emphasized: > The thugs of the Ministry of Intelligence knew very well that Mir Yousef Younesi had nothing to do with their alleged case, but actually for revenge, they involved him in this case and put him on the same level as the main and first-tier accused who is outside of Iran, and issued a similar sentence of five years in prison for both of them. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>