Abbas Yavari, Arrested During the January 2026 Uprising, Dies under Torture in a Shiraz Detention Center
Call to Refer the Regime’s Crimes to the UN Security Council and Hold Its Leaders Accountable
Abbas Yavari, 31, one of the protesters during the January 2026 uprising, died as a result of torture inflicted by agents of the clerical regime in a detention facility in Shiraz.
Abbas, an Arab Iranian from Ahvaz, the capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan, was arrested in Shiraz during the January uprising. He was transferred to Shiraz Central Prison in late February. However, on March 26, he was moved from the prison to another detention center, where he was tortured to death. On March 29, regime agents informed his family of his death, claiming that he had committed suicide.
It is reported that the interrogators’ objective in torturing Abbas was to extract a forced confession implicating him in the alleged killing of Basij members during the uprising in the Ma’ali Abad and Molla Sadra areas of Shiraz.
In a related development, two political prisoners, Manouchehr Vafaei (28) and Navid Naqdi (32), who have been sentenced to death on charges related to the killing of two Basij members affiliated with the IRGC in Shiraz in 2024, are at imminent risk of execution.
The Iranian Resistance once again stresses the urgent need to refer the dossier of the clerical regime’s crimes to the United Nations Security Council and to bring its leaders to justice for crimes against humanity and genocide over the past 47 years. It also calls for urgent action by the United Nations and relevant international bodies to halt the regime’s killing machine and to save the lives of political prisoners on death row.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
April 17, 2026