Iranshahr: A Baloch man has staged a sit-in since 16th July at the city’s mosque, as the location of his son arrested over protesting mass rape of 41 women has remained unknown for nearly one month, local campaign groups have reported.
In a video clip circulated on social media, Gholam Ghader Bozorgzadeh expressed despair about his son’s situation, declaring that he will continue his sit-in, demanding the authorities to reveal the location of his son, Abullah Bozorgzadeh.
He explained how the IRGC agents arrested him on 11th July as he stood in protest, against his son’s disappearance, outside the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The agents forced him to commit in writing not to continue his protest in that place.
Mohammad Tayeb, the younger son of Mr. Bozorgzadeh was summoned on the same day to FATA police (The Iranian Cyber Police) for publishing news of his elder brother’s arrest.
The 16 year-old boy was interrogated and warned against speaking to the media.
According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) citing a source who requested anonymity for security reasons, “Twenty days after Abdullah Bozorgzadeh was arrested, and after his father stood in protest outside the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] in Iranshahr, Abdollah called his mother and with a trembling voice said that he was feeling well but did not say who detained him or where he is being held.”
“He insisted that the family should not talk to the media and hung up,” added the source.
“His call and his trembling voice made the family even more worried.”
Abdollah Bozorgzadeh is father of a young child and sells herbal medicines in Iranshahr.
In June 2018, the news of gang rapes of 41 young women and girls in Iranshahr shocked and outraged the locals.