Australian-Iranian, 83, dead after calls for release from notorious Iran prison

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An Australian-Iranian man has died in a notorious Iranian prison, his family says, days after Amnesty International called for his release and accused Iranian authorities of torturing him. 9News

, said his death was "tragic and preventable.

in May last year, Mr Jebeli declared his innocence, blaming one of the men with whom he had the dispute for putting him behind bars. "He is held in conditions that violate the absolute prohibition of torture or other ill-treatment," Amnesty International said in a model letter designed for supporters to send to the head of Iran's judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei.

Mr Jebeli did not find out he had been sentenced to four years and six months in jail over the dispute until Iranian authorities replied to a UN complaint letter sent in May last year, according to Amnesty International.

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