Iran: Disappearance of an Infant with no End in Sight

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Justice for Iran (JFI), 3 March 2016: 33 years after the disappearance of a father and daughter, Iranian authorities are still refusing to provide any information about their fate or whereabouts. Facing this silence, Justice for Iran decided to report the case to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) of the United Nations in a long overdue effort for redress and accountability. In the recent years Raheleh Rahemipour, one of the relatives of the victims, has been demanding justice for the forced disappearance of her brother and his baby girl by staging protests and sit-ins while holding a sign which reads: “You killed my brother! What did you do to his daughter?”

In April 1984, Raheleh Rahemipour’s new born niece was forcefully abducted while in custody of Iran’s Evin prison. Earlier, in August of 1983, 35-year-old, Hossein Rahemipour Moghaddam and his wife, whose identity is protected, were arrested at their house in Tehran. They both belonged to a communist organisation, Rahe-h Karegar, whose members were chastised by the Iranian State. Members of the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) arrested the couple while the Ms. Rahemipour Moghaddam was already pregnant.

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