Iran’s authorities have failed to give an explanation for at least 72 deaths in custody since January 2010, according to a report by Amnesty International.

Amnesty documents from “informed sources”, including relatives and fellow inmates, that 46 of the deaths are allegedly from torture or other ill treatment. Another 15 followed the use use of firearms and tear gas by prison guards suppressing protests over conditions amid the Coronavirus pandemic.

The deaths were at 42 prisons and detention centres in 16 of Iran’s 31 provinces. Amnesty lists the names of all the victims and, where available, the date and location. Most of the dead were aged under 30.

Thousands of political detainees have been held since the disputed 2009 Presidential election. There was another spike in deaths in custody after nationwide protests in November 2019.

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Amnesty notes, “Not a single official has since been held to account for these deaths, reflecting Iran’s long-standing crisis of impunity.”

Last Tuesday, the death of Shahin Naseri in Greater Tehran Penitentiary was confirmed. He had been held in solitary confinement after described the torture of wrestler Navid Afkari, was was executed in September 2018.

The victims named in the report include teenager Farshid Nouri, whose death in West Azerbaijan Province was reported in August 2010; Sattar Beheshti, detained in November 2012 over the political and social content of his blog; and professor and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died in february 2018 in suspicious circumstances.

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