Iran Further information on Prisoners of Conscience/Medical Concern and new concern: fear of ill-treatment/incommunicado detention

One of those arrested on 11 March, Mohammad Bastehnegar, has reportedly been charged with “acting against Islam”, which is punishable by death. He has been held in solitary confinement, without access to a lawyer, since his arrest. All those now detained are prisoners of conscience associated with the Milli Mazhabi, or Religious Nationalist movement, a broad and informal group of individuals advocating reform in Iran.

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