[1] After their sentences were issued, they wrote in a letter that they were forced to confess under duress and torture and that they had not played a part in the assassination.
[2][3] Moradi maintained that for nine months after his initial arrest, authorities had detained him for membership of the Komala Party.
[4] In a letter addressed to Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, on 14 November 2016, which he co-wrote with his cousin Loghman, he detailed the torture and sexual threats that they were subjected to in order to make a confession.
[5] Eghbal Morad, father of Zaniar Moradi, was killed on 17 July 2018 near the Panjavin River in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq which borders the town of Marivan in Iran.
Recent arrests and ill-treatment of a number of human rights defenders and lawyers are deplorable.