Asgar Akbarzadeh, a chemistry student at the Payam-e Noor University of Ardebil, was reportedly detained on 15 October, while outside the university premises, by men in plain clothes believed to be officials from the Ministry of Intelligence (Etela’at). The next day, the Head of Branch 14 of the Revolutionary Court of Ardebil reportedly charged him with “propaganda against the system” and set his bail at 70 million Rials. As his family did not have a guarantor for the bail, Asgar Akbarzadeh was taken to Ardebil prison. However, on 1 November, unknown to his family, he was transferred to a Ministry of Intelligence