Juvenile offender Saman Naseem, now 22, was taken on 7 March to the Ministry of Intelligence office in Oroumieh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province, where two men from the Children’s Rights division of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights asked him to do a video interview. One of them apparently told him the interview would be confidential, only for the use of the office of the Secretary General of the High Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani. The man also seemed to threaten that non-compliance would have “consequences”, even execution. Amnesty International understands that Saman Naseem refused, saying he would never repeat the televised “confessions” he had once been forced to make.
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