HRANA News Agency – Concerns are growing for the welfare of a Sunni youth who has been detained without charge in Iran for more than two months.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ahmad Sohrabi, the son of Yusef Sohrabi (a Sunni scholar who was executed in Iran in 2008), was arrested on 18 February 2014 in Iranshahr, Sistan-Baluchestan province. Witnesses say that he was blindfolded by Intelligence agents before being taken to an unknown location, with reports suggesting that he was being held ‘under pressure’ in the Ministry of Intelligence detention center in Iranshahr.

A source told the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), “Ahmad Sohrabi has been held in custody without any specific charges, and in his last telephone call on the 12th of April he told his family: ‘this is my last [telephone] call.’”

The Ministry of Intelligence had contacted his family and told them to attend a court session due to take place the day after the telephone call. However, fears for his welfare increased when the family arrived at court to find that no court session for him was taking place, and officials provided them with no information about his condition.

Ahmad Sohrabi is the son of Shaykh Yusef Sohrabi, a famous Sunni scholar who was executed along with Shaykh Abdol-Qoddus Mollazehi in 2008 in Zahedan prison. The Sohrabi family was subjected to a continuous campaign of harassment since his execution, and were repeatedly summoned to the Intelligence Office and interrogated.