HRANA – Mir-Youssef Younesi, a political prisoner held in Evin Prison, was transferred today, Monday, April 13, 2026 (24 Farvardin, Europe time), from the prison to an unknown location. The move has heightened his family’s concerns regarding his fate.

Reza Younesi, the son of the 73-year-old political prisoner, announced his father’s sudden transfer in a written statement, saying: “This morning, Evin Prison officials summoned him to the prison office, but after he went there, he did not return to the ward. His cellmates were later told that he had been transferred. My father did not even have the chance to collect his personal belongings, and at present, there is no information about where he is being held.”

Mr. Younesi had been sentenced in January 2024 by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to five years of discretionary imprisonment.

The court session addressing the charges against him was held on December 31, 2023. According to his daughter Aida, Mr. Younesi was not taken to court because he refused to wear prison clothes, and the judge also did not allow his lawyers to present a defense.

On December 28, 2022, Mr. Younesi was arrested in Shahroud. After 107 days in solitary confinement in Wards 240 and 209, followed by detention in closed multi-person cells in Ward 209 of Evin Prison, he was transferred to the prison’s general ward.

Mir Youssef Younesi is the father of Ali Younesi, the student currently imprisoned in Evin Prison. Ali Younesi won the silver medal in Iran’s National Astronomy Olympiad in 2016 and the gold medal in 2017. He also achieved first place with a gold medal in the 12th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics held in China. He and another detained student from the same university, Amirhossein Moradi, are currently serving their sentences in Evin Prison.