According to people close to the teenager, Abbas was arrested on the evening of January 10 in connection with the popular protests in Azadshahr. After being transferred to an IRGC Intelligence detention facility, he was subjected to severe torture for five days, during which he lost consciousness four times. He is currently being held in the Grgan Juvenile Correction and Training Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is reported that Abbas\u2019s family has made numerous attempts to retain a lawyer, but so far no lawyer has agreed to take on his case. Authorities have stated that the charge of \u201cleading the protests\u201d has been brought against him, and the judiciary has not yet provided the family with any clear information regarding the status of his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be noted that due to financial difficulties, Abbas had to drop out of school and was working as a laborer to help support his family\u2019s living expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the annual report of the Balochistan Human Rights Group (2025\/1404), at least 978 individuals were arrested in Balochistan throughout the year 2025. Among these individuals, 394 were without any identity documents or birth certificates. During this period, 19 cases of group arrests were recorded in which more than one person was detained simultaneously, and in 12 cases, more than five individuals were arrested in a single operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Balochistan Human Rights Group, today, Thursday, February 19, 2026 (corresponding to 30 Bahman 1404), a Baloch teenager was violently arrested by IRGC Intelligence forces on January 10, 2026 (20 Dey 1404) during popular protests in Azadshahr, Golestan Province. He was subjected to severe torture and then forced to make coerced confessions. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child_rights","category-human_rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12.png\")
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