Iranian scientist abused in US jail

The mother of an Iranian scientist held in a US prison says his son has been subjected to several incidents of physical abuse.

Physicist Amir-Houshang Sanjari was found guilty of failing to support his children following his divorce 10 years ago and has been in jail for two years.

Fatemeh Naghipour told Press TV that she received a call from her son on January 4 and the news that his son is physically abused in jail has made life miserable for her.

“He said I don’t want to upset you, but I was beaten so badly that they took me to the hospital unconscious,” Naghipour said.

Once a successful nuclear physicist working in the United States and Britain, Sanjari has been in jail for two years in Indiana because he failed to pay $5,000 for child support.

His mother dismissed the allegation and explained that he has been deliberately prevented from continuing his career over the past five years after he exposed judicial corruption and injustice in the federal court in northern Indiana.

Sanjari said in a phone call from prison that when he filed complaint to the federal agencies like the FBI and the US Department of Justice and provided them with solid evidence of criminal misconduct by the judge and the prosecutor, the federal agencies did not do anything.

Sanjari has been on hunger strike twice to protest against the court ruling.