Iran: Murder witness faces ill-treatment, Caspian Makan

Index Number: MDE 13/096/2009
Date Published: 3 September 2009
Categories: Iran

Tehran resident Caspian Makan, who was the fiancé of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman killed in the recent protests in Iran, is in detention in Evin Prison. Amnesty International believes that he is being held because he witnessed her murder and later made a statement linking her killing to a member of Iran’s Basij militia. He is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.