As MEK Iran wrote in their article, the Nobel laureates stressed that the Iranian regime, due to fear of another uprising, has no choice but to resort to intimidation and repression of its citizens.
MEK Iran has cited the letter on their news website and on their Twitter profile: "We, the Nobel Prize laureates who signed this letter, urge you to use your good offices to do everything possible to ensure that political prisoners, in particular Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, are released immediately".
The full text of the letter from the Nobel laureates, which was published on the MEK Iran website is as follows:
Letter from the Nobel Prizes to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights about two elite Iranian students arrested
May 15, 2020
URGENT
Honorable Michelle Bachelet
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
Mrs. Bachelet,
Re: Two students from Sharif University of Technology
As you probably know, the Iranian “judiciary” announced, after 26 days of silence, that Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, two award-winning students at Tehran Sharif University of Technology, have been detained for their opposition to the Iranian regime.
Mr. Younesi won the gold medal of the 12th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in 2018. Previously, he had won the silver and gold medals of the National Astronomy Olympiad in 2016 and 2017. Mr. Moradi also won the medal silver medal at the Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in 2017. They are accused of sympathizing with the opposition group MEK Iran.
Terrified by another uprising, the Iranian regime finds no option but to resort to intimidation and repression of its citizens.
Adding to the gravity of the matter at this time, is the spread of COVID-19 in Iranian prisons that exposes these and all other detainees to the deadly virus.
The usual practice of the Iranian security forces is to extort money to obtain confessions under torture. Many experts on the human rights situation in Iran fear that the arrest of Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi will serve to prepare the ground for widespread and brutal repression of all opponents, in particular the student movement, which would be a flagrant violation of human rights in the months after the Coronavirus.
We, the Nobel Prize laureates who signed this letter, urge you to use your good offices to do everything possible to ensure that political prisoners, in particular Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, are released immediately.
The signatories:
Professor Barry Barish, 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, USA
Professor David Wineland, 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, USA
Professor John Lewis Hall, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, USA
Professor Richard Roberts, 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine, USA
Professor Elias Corey, 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, USA
Professor Thomas Cech, 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, USA
Professor Jerome Friedman, 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics, USA
Professor John Polanyi, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Canada
Professor Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979, USA
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