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NCRI \u2013 The Iranian regime\u2019s Intelligence Ministry is forcing relatives of a murdered dissident to claim that their loved one committed suicide, the sister of the student activist said.<\/p>\nNCRI \u2013 The Iranian regime\u2019s Intelligence Ministry is forcing relatives of a murdered dissident to claim that their loved one committed suicide, the sister of the student activist said.<\/p>\n
Mr Keramatallah Za\u2019reian, 27, a student activist, was murdered under torture by agents of the regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), his sister said in an interview. She added that the MOIS had forced her family to sign papers claiming that her brother had committed suicide.<\/p>\n
The regime told Za\u2019reian\u2019s family \u201cyou will not receive his corpse unless you write down that he has committed suicide\u201d. They received his body only after they wrote the false note.<\/p>\n
Za\u2019reian had been studying theatre directing at Tehran University.\u00a0 Prior to his arrest in November, he had been detained three times for participating in the 2009 uprisings.<\/p>\n
One month after the arrest, MOIS agents murdered\u00a0Za\u2019reian under torture and took his body to his residence in Tehran. They placed Za\u2019reian\u2019s corpse in the bathtub and left hot water running. Four days later, neighbors noting the water leaks and odor, contacted the fire department.\u00a0\u00a0 Za\u2019reian\u2019s body had been decomposed to an extent that it was difficult to identify or move, according to his sister.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 Picture of Keramatallah Za\u2019reian’s corpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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