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

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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.

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