Abbas Yavari, a 31-year-old and one of the protesters in the January protests, was killed under systematic and organized torture by the henchmen of Iran’s regime in a detention center in Shiraz; a crime that once again lays bare the repressive and inhumane nature of this ruling system.
Abbas, a young Arab from Ahvaz, was arrested after participating in public protests in Shiraz and transferred to the city’s central prison. But this was not the end of the story; on March 26, he was moved to an undisclosed detention center, where he died under brutal torture. Security agents of the regime, following their usual script, claimed three days later that he had committed suicide; a repetitive lie used to cover state killings that deceives no one.
Reports indicate that the interrogators’ aim in carrying out this torture was to extract forced confessions about his role in the protests. Confessions they never managed to obtain, and for that reason, Abbas Yavari was killed under torture.
At the same time, in another case, two other political prisoners, Manouchehr Vafaei, 28, and Navid Naghdi, 32, who have been sentenced to death on charges of killing two Basij militia members affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Shiraz in 2024, are at risk of execution. International and human rights institutions must be the voice of these young rebels.
This is an organized killing machine that for years has sought, through torture and executions, to suppress the uprising and movement of the Iranian people for overthrow. The continuation of this situation without accountability amounts to a green light for ongoing crimes.
The پرونده of these crimes must be immediately referred to the United Nations Security Council. The leaders of Iran’s regime must be held accountable before international justice for decades of crimes against humanity. Silence and inaction amount to complicity with criminals. Now is the time for action, not observation.
