Yasser Goli, a student from the town of Sanandaj who is marked by university authorities ‎with a star – meaning that he or she is a dissident activist – has been detained by ‎authorities since 20 days ago. During this period, he has not been allowed to contact his ‎relatives even once. His mother, who is naturally very concerned about the condition of ‎her son told Rooz in exclusive exchange, “I have absolutely no news about my son. I go ‎to court everyday to get some news from him but nobody says anything. There, ‎authorities even threatened us that they can keep my son for as long they wish. One of the ‎authorities even threatened to arrest us as well.”
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Yasser’s mother spoke of her son’s heart ailment and how any kind of tension was ‎detrimental to his health. “He suffers from high blood pressure for years, which has ‎forced him to be hospitalized. I am afraid that this situation will cause more damage to ‎his health, which it probably will,” she said. “The assistant prosecutor told me, “Your son ‎has no heart problems and he simply lies about it. We know he is healthy and we are not ‎responsible for his health. If your son has a heart attack or commits suicide inside prison, ‎we are not responsible.”‎

Yasser’s mother is both angry and concerned. “I worked for 25 years to raise my son but ‎is this what I deserve? Our life has been completely disrupted because of this arrest. ‎Yasser’s father can’t work and his brother has refrained from attending his college ‎classes because we all concerned about Yasser’s fate. If my son is doing well, then why ‎don’t they let us see him,” she asks. She did acknowledge that she had accidentally seen ‎her son some days earlier when she was visiting the court to enquire about the condition ‎of her son. “I could not believe what I saw: my son was very thin and his hair was all ‎messy while he wore handcuffs. He looked so bad that I wish I had not seen him in that ‎condition. That scene keeps coming back to me and it frightens me. In the courthouse, ‎they make fun of us and the authorities tell the guards to throw us out of the building. I ‎write a letter everyday to the authorities and give it to the court officials when I go there, ‎but they tear up my letters right in front of my eyes,” she grieved. ‎

In response to the Rooz reported who asked what she would like human rights activists ‎and groups to do for her, she said, “Help us, and all those others behind bars. Do it before ‎anything bad happens to them because if anything does happen to my son, then I would ‎not want anybody’s help.”‎