Source: Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian student jailed for his role in street protests four years ago has disappeared after meeting a senior United Nations official in Tehran, a close relative said Tuesday.
Ahmad Batebi was convicted of endangering national security when he was photographed holding up the bloody shirt of an injured friend during violent student protests in 1999 which were the largest since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
A relative said Batebi, who was on a brief furlough from Tehran's Evin prison, Saturday met Ambeyi Ligabo, a U.N. Special Rapporteur charged with promoting free speech.
"After this meeting Saturday, he just vanished," a close relative told Reuters by telephone.
The relative said Batebi was supposed to return to Evin prison Monday afternoon, but he did not show up.
"We called everywhere, his friends, the judiciary and the prison but nobody has any clue about his whereabouts," the relative said.
Judiciary officials could not be reached for comment.
Ligabo, who met 37 political dissidents during a six-day visit to Iran at the invitation of the Iranian government, called Monday for Iran to release all political prisoners.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian student jailed for his role in street protests four years ago has disappeared after meeting a senior United Nations official in Tehran, a close relative said Tuesday.
Ahmad Batebi was convicted of endangering national security when he was photographed holding up the bloody shirt of an injured friend during violent student protests in 1999 which were the largest since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
A relative said Batebi, who was on a brief furlough from Tehran's Evin prison, Saturday met Ambeyi Ligabo, a U.N. Special Rapporteur charged with promoting free speech.
"After this meeting Saturday, he just vanished," a close relative told Reuters by telephone.
The relative said Batebi was supposed to return to Evin prison Monday afternoon, but he did not show up.
"We called everywhere, his friends, the judiciary and the prison but nobody has any clue about his whereabouts," the relative said.
Judiciary officials could not be reached for comment.
Ligabo, who met 37 political dissidents during a six-day visit to Iran at the invitation of the Iranian government, called Monday for Iran to release all political prisoners.
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