Mohamadi was sentenced to death, in September 1999, in connection with the students' uprising of July 1999. The death sentence was, later, changed to 15 years of imprisonment following International pressure on the regime but the victim was consistently subjected to harsh tortures.

Mohamadi is known to have been beaten severely by prison guards prior to his death, on Sunday, and was reported as having been chained to the prison's hospital bed earlier. He would pass away in what has been reported as having been forced to go to showers in order to present him to a delegation visiting the prison.

The security agents were hoping to break his resistance and to show that he has put an end to the strike.

The victim had made publish, recently and outside Iran, a book on the exactions committed by the Islamic regime and the human rights abuses in Iran. Such publication had increased the anger of the Islamic regime's Intelligence circles and the Judiciary power.

Akbar was the younger brother of Manouchehr who's another imprisoned activist. His parents were in Turkey when they received the news of the death of their cherished son.

Mohamadi's parents are expected to reach Tehran, later this evening, and increased security measures are expected at Tehran's airport for their arrival. They're flying aboard Turkish Airlines flight # 2176.

Many are expected to rush to the airport in order to show their support for the family of who has been qualified as "Iran's Bobby Sands". Sands was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) activist who died in 1981 during hunger strike in British prisons.