Nabeel Baqir has reportedly been forcibly exiled to Iran on 15 June, together with Ahmad Hussain Mirza. They had been imprisoned on political grounds since 1987, and had reportedly served their respective seven-year sentences. Nabeel Baqir is one of the political prisoners reortedly tortured following the discovery of a radio during a cell inspection in Jaw Prison No 1 on 9 April 1994.