He dies after torture in Iran, he had studied in Bologna.
Amnesty: 'The young man beaten and sent home, died after 20 days in a coma'. Zaki: 'The University of Bologna has a new victim of freedom' (ANSA).
A young man in his early thirties died in Iran after twenty days in a coma as a result of torture.
He had been arrested, beaten and then released precisely for fear that he would die in the cell.
His name was
Mehdi Zare Ashkzari
and what made his chilling end even more 'felt' in Italy is the link with Bologna and with his university in particular, where Mehdi had studied pharmacy before returning home two years ago.
And it is Amnesty International Italy disseminated the first information on the case.
Then the message from
Patrick Zaki
who, with the disappearance of the thirty-year-old Iranian, underlines how the University of Bologna "now has a new victim of freedom of expression".
Disarming words those of the Egyptian student who remained in prison in his homeland for two years for crimes of opinion, when he comments: "Unfortunately, this time, it was too late to save him".