Armenian student arrested on charge of promoting Christianity
Karen vartanian arrested
«Armenian student arrested on charge of promoting Christianity .»
An Armenian student, arrested in demonstration December 2017 on charges of orgenizing warrior groups against the government and promoting Christianity and anti-Islamic activities.
Karen Vartanian is a single and 9th semester student of pharmacy at Arak University,who was born in Tehran ,1994. He is one of the arrestees of nationwide
demonstration in December.
According to Daneshjoo News,he was arrested on December 30, 2017, and spent 17 days under the most severe physical and mental torture,and he lost 15 kilos of weight during the arrestment.
Karen Vartanian was summoned to the Revolutionary Court two weeks ago.
He was accused to false charges of insulting and disseminating lies, disturbing the public opinion, orgenizing warrior groups against the government, promoting Christianity and anti-Islamic activities.
Karen Vartanian has congenital heart disease and had heart surgery in April 2018. His family and lawyer asked the judge to release him on bail,due to his heart problem,but their request was rejected.
According to reports Karen Vartanian was beaten by the prison forces in front of her mother’s and sister’s eyes. One of the prison force said falsely to the people that he has raped several daughters under 18 years old.
On August 30, 2018,after two days of arrestment,Karen was transferred to the Prison of Fashafiyah.
He had a heart attack at the Fashafiyah Prison and then was transferred to Rajai Hospital under security guarded care,on Sunday, September 2, 2018.
Despite the doctor’s advice,for him to rest 3_4 days more in hospital ,the prison forces didin’t agree and returned him to prison .
During his arrestment,Karen only contacted with his family two times.
This Christian family is very concerned about Karen condition and they were not allowed to visit their son ,also the judge did not specify the date of his trial.