{"id":31396,"date":"2022-01-12T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=31396"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:16:46","slug":"calls-by-iranian-poet-baktash-abtin-for-people-to-stand-up-and-fight-for-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2022\/01\/calls-by-iranian-poet-baktash-abtin-for-people-to-stand-up-and-fight-for-their-rights\/31396\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls by Iranian Poet, Baktash Abtin for People to Stand Up and Fight for Their Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Baktash Abtin, Author, Poet, Film-maker and Iranian Political Prisoner<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While serving a six-year sentence in prison for charges of \u2018illegal assembly and collusion against national security\u2019 and \u2018spreading propaganda against the state\u2019, Iranian poet and documentary filmmaker, Baktash Abtin<\/a> has died from Covid-19 in hospital whilst still in detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 47-year-old, who had been routinely deprived of necessary healthcare during his prison sentence, was placed into an induced coma during the first week of January, after prison officials had delayed transferring him to hospital for 10 days. This was the second Covid-19 infection that Abtin had endured, but ultimately this delay in treatment has cost him his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI) said<\/a>, \u201cMr. Abtin is the latest victim of the regime\u2019s criminal conduct that has put political prisoners in a dire situation. Despite repeated domestic and international calls, the regime refused to temporarily release prisoners during the pandemic and continued to disrupt the treatment of infected with the virus. It also prevented their transfer to hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abtin is the second Iranian prisoner to die during their prison sentence since the start of 2022. Adel Kianpour<\/a>, a prisoner at the Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, died on January 1 following a week-long hunger strike, after suffering from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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