Lawyer of Seyed Emami's Family: The Complainant in the Environmental Activists' Case is the IRGC

Three months after the arrest of several environmental activists in Iran, the status of this case remains unclear, and some of these individuals are still in prison. The Iranian judiciary announced at the time of the arrests that the charges against these individuals were security-related, while the Ministry of Intelligence and the head of Iran's Environmental Protection Organization stated that there is no evidence of espionage in the case. However, the IRGC insists on continuing the detention of these individuals, and the Tehran prosecutor claims that executive officials have no right to interfere in judicial cases. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic's state television aired a video claiming that Kavous Seyed Emami, a university professor and environmental activist, was sending information to foreigners via an 'antenna.' This university professor died in prison two weeks after his arrest, with judicial authorities declaring his cause of death as suicide. Now, three months later, the case of Seyed Emami's suspicious death in prison has not reached a conclusion, and his wife has also been banned from leaving the country. In an interview, we asked Payam Darvishan, the lawyer for Seyed Emami's family, about the details of this case involving activists who, according to their families, were only engaged in environmental protection.