[2] After they were sentenced to death, they announced that they were forced under torture to confess to the killing and had not played a part in the assassination.
[3][4][5] Moradi was arrested by security forces in the town of Marivan in Kurdistan, Iran on August 2, 2009, along with his cousin Zaniar.
[4] He has been detained in the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency for nine months where he was “under severe physical and psychological torture.” Family visits were banned from 2009 until 2013.
[6][7] Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s research and advocacy director for the middle east and North Africa condemned the execution of Loghman Moradi and the other two prisoners and said: "We are horrified by the news that the Iranian authorities have executed these men, despite widespread condemnation of their death sentences and call from UN human rights experts and other bodies to halt their executions".
Recent arrests and ill-treatment of a number of human rights defenders and lawyers are deplorable.