Vahid Sayadi Nasiri (; 27 August 1980 – 12 December 2018) was an Iranian

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and

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who died on

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. Sayadi Nasiri was also a

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whose

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point of view caused him to be put in jail.Death of Iranian Political Prisoner and Human Rights Activist Vahid Sayadi-Nassiri
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Life

In 2018 he was moved from

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's central prison which he was critical of its maintenance and health-care conditions. Vahid Sayadi Nasiri started a hunger-strike in prison to protest his allegedly illegal and uncomfortable situation in prison. Finally, on 5 December 2018, Nasiri was moved from prison to the Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Qom and seven days later died.

Imprisonment and hunger strike

Vahid Sayadi Nasiri was initially arrested in September 2015 and sentenced to eight years in prison. Nasiri had been accused on charges of insulting the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic government of Iran,

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Ali Khamenei Ali Hosseini Khamenei (; born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He previously served as the third President of Iran, president from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei's tenure ...

and enforcement against the state. The charges stemmed from posts he had made on his

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page. He had already spent two and a half years in prison and allegedly had been the subject of abuse and harassment. He was again detained in July 2018 for the second time after being freed for months. He had not eaten for 60 days to protest against the lack of legal protection and the prison regime of Iran.

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On 20 December 2018

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urged the regime in Iran to investigate and find an explanation for the death of Vahid Sayadi Nasiri who had been jailed for insulting the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. According to his family Nasiri had been on hunger strike but he was denied medical attention before he died.

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Life

Imprisonment and hunger strike

International Feedback

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