Mohsen Rouholamini

Mohsen Rouholamini Najafabadi ( ;20 May 1984 – July 2009) was a graduate student in the computer engineering department at the University of Tehran. He died in July 2009 at the Kahrizak detention center following his arrest in connection with protests of the 2009 presidential election in Iran. Rouholamini was the son of Abdolhossein Rouholamini, a prominent Iranian principlist and adviser to presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaee.

Death

Rouhalamini was arrested on 9 July 2009 in connection with protests over the 2009 presidential election in Iran and reportedly taken to the Kahrizak detention center. Two weeks later he was taken to a hospital where he died. but according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency, an Iranian medical examiner found that he had died of "physical stress, the effects of being held in bad conditions, multiple blows and severe injuries to the body." According to the guardian, Rouholamini's family was led to believe that he was going to be released, days before they were shocked by his death.

According to human rights groups, he was one of "at least three protesters" to die after being detained at Kahrizak, but his father's influence has drawn attention to the issue of abuse of protest prisoners, as "conservative Iranian lawmakers and politicians" expressed anger over the death. According to Mehr News Agency, the Iranian Supreme Leader ordered the closure of the Kahrizak detention center because it was nonstandard.