Thirty-one-year-old Abbas Yavari has become the latest victim of the Iranian regime’s brutal penal system, dying under severe torture in a Shiraz detention center.

Arrested during the massive nationwide uprisings of January 2026, Yavari was initially transferred to Shiraz Central Prison in late February. On March 26, authorities moved him to an undisclosed detention facility where he was tortured to death. In a familiar tactic used by the regime to cover up its crimes, state agents informed Yavari’s family on March 29 that he had “committed suicide.”

Human rights monitors and sources indicate that interrogators subjected Yavari to lethal torture to extract a forced confession. The regime intended to falsely implicate him in the alleged killing of Basij paramilitary members during the recent protests........

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