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Iran:Student Activist Executed as Gang-Member

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Education, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Protest

Kamangir says [1] that Meisam Lotfi, a student activist, executed as gang-member recently in Iran. His mother said Meisam spent six month in the infamous Evin Prison after the July 1999 student riots. Meisam had spent 55 days in solitary confinement after he was accused of setting tires on fire during the protests which followed the fundamentalists’ raid to the dormitory of University of Tehran.