No news on the whereabouts of esteemed activist and blogger, Kianoosh Sanjari

Student committee of human rights reporters

Over the last 3 days of severe unrest in Tehran many activists and anti-regime groups who were present only to record and report the events, have also been arrested. The unrest was triggered by the arrest of the Ayatollah Kazemeini-Boroujerdi and his followers, all who call the regime an illegitimate government and demand for the separation of religion and state.

Hours after the end of the street fighting, on Saturday night, October 7th, there is still no information on the status of esteemed activist and blogger Kianoosh Sanjari who is also a member of students’ united front.

Sanjari who had gone to the residence of Ayatollah Kazemeini-Boroujerdi to prepare a report was arrested along with the Ayatollah’s supporters and was transferred to an unknown location. Reportedly, all these disappearances were enforced and overseen by NAJA, the secret police bureau for combating social corruption.

During recent days hundreds of the Ayatollahs’ supporters have been arrested and taken to the infamous detention center 209 of Evin prison which is overseen and run by the agents of the ministry of intelligence and security. It is possible that Sanjari has also been transferred to this ward.

Also according to eye witnesses, a large number of people who were involved in the street fighting and major clashes with the regime’s disciplinary guards who had surrounded the Ayatollah’s residence, were severely injured and were delivered to the Imam Khomeini hospital and other area hospitals.