Iranian poet Baktash Abtin dies in detention after being infected with COVID
The Iranian poet and regime critic Baktash Abtin has died in prison in Tehran due to Covid-19, according to a writers' association. Abtin died in Evin prison on Saturday, the Iranian Writers' Union (CNI) and Ilna news agency reported.
- Middle East
- AFP
- Published Date: 04:18 | 08 January 2022
- Modified Date: 05:09 | 08 January 2022
Dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin, who was serving a jail sentence in Tehran on security charges, has died after falling ill with Covid-19, rights groups said Saturday.
"Baktash Abtin has died," the Iranian Writers Association said in a statement on its Telegram channel after the author was put into an induced coma earlier in the week.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders confirmed his death in a statement on Twitter, saying it blamed the authorities for failing to save his life.
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