Zahra Bani Yaqub seemed to have everything going for her. A 27-year-old graduate of the Tehran Medical University, she was a young doctor with a bright future.
But last October, Bani Yaqub was arrested while walking in a park in the western city of Hamadan with her male companion. The next day, she was dead.
Police say she committed suicide in prison overnight, but her family says that’s impossible -- that she was happy and upbeat about her future as a urologist. They accuse prison authorities of killing Bani Yaqub, whose case is merely the latest in a series of suspicious deaths or tortures in prison to be highlighted by human rights activists.
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights attorney who won the Nobel Peace Prize, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that she is handling Bani Yaqub’s case as a suspicious death under detention.
The activists maintain that such abuses occur before suspects are officially charged or have had access to a lawyer.
This article is important becauce Human Right Activists stand for peoples basic rights in a country. When someone that stands for Human Rights commits suicide obviously that person felt that she was not granted her full rights. Although this is not for sure te reason she might have committed suicide, this is reason to be suspicious.
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