The father of detained student activist Ehsan Mansouri, told Rooz, “It seems like conditions are going to deteriorate again for the detained students, because Ehsan had said in our last meeting that if they cut off the phones, that would mean we are in solitary confinement.”

Mr. Mansouri also reported that the detained students from the Polytechnic University have no access to their attorneys: “The judges and officials in charge of the case do not allow attorneys to engage in the judicial process even though the laws of the Islamic Republic entitle individuals to have an attorney. Although we insist that our children are not guilty, as long as they are accused they must have lawyers.”

Ehsan Mansouri’s father, who was speaking to a Rooz reporter after leaving the office of Judge Mortazavi, said, “Perhaps some are unhappy with the recent order of the head of the judiciary for a quick resolution of the case and the release of students and try to sabotage it.”

Mansouri’s father noted that Mr. Shahroudi’s recent order had brought much-needed hope to the families of detained students. However, “The Revolutionary Court has prohibited us from meeting or calling our loved ones despite the order.”

Mr. Mansouri added, “Mortazavi denied that they were being kept in solitary confinement and said that all three are together.”

Mansouri’s father continued, “The point is that most people who comment on these students have not even seen the case. Even Mr. Raeesi and Mr. Mortazavi admit this, but still everyone convicts the students and announces that in papers and the press. Mr. Motazavi says that he hasn’t seen the case but he knows that the three are guilty.”

Mansouri’s father concluded his remarks by saying , “We have written another letter to Hashemi Shahroudi and we wish for serious attention to the case of students.”

Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakkoli and Ahmad Ghasaban are three students from Tehran Polytechnic University who have now spent 100 days in jail on charges of insulting holy figures in a school publication and have been subjected to severe torture. Officials maintain that the publication was fake and distributed as a means to create a case for themselves.

Shirin Ebadi has accepted to represent the three students but she has not been able to look at the dossier yet.