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Baktash Abtin, dissident Iranian poet, dies of Covid on prison furlough

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Abtin’s death was ‘aided and abetted’ by the Iran’s government, says US human rights group PEN America

Composite: PEN AMERICAComposite: PEN AMERICAThe dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died of Covid-19 in hospital after being released on a furlough from prison where he was infected.

Abtin was transferred to hospital in the capital Tehran “but the treatment did not succeed and he died”, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Saturday. PEN America, a human rights group, said on Twitter: “Covid is a natural killer, but Abtin’s death was aided and abetted by the Iranian government every step of the way.”

 

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