Mohamadi's parents had shortened their stay following the news on the sudden death of their cherished son which happened on Sunday night. The old couple was, later, transferred forcibly to the remote northern City of Amol and placed under surveillance at their home.

The family's phone lines have been cut and their mobile phones were already confiscated by the Airport's guards.

The official reaction shows the fear of the Islamist leadership on the consequences of the death of the maverick student and the presence of his parents in the Capital. This fear seems to have risen following an unprecedented coverage offered, to Mohamdi's death, by the usual compliant foreign news agencies located in Iran.
Already most access roads to Tehran Airport were placed under close watch, an hour before the landing of Turkish Airlines Flight #2176, in an effort to avoid any popular gathering.

Akbar 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 who was observing a Hunger Strike, is known to have been beaten severely by prison guards prior to his death and was reported as having been chained to the prison's hospital bed earlier. He passed away in what has been reported as having been forced to go to showers in order to present him, in better conditions, 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. But reports are stating that some of the last words of Mohamadi were that “he sees the day that all Evins of Iran, will be transformed into parks that they will become the symbol of a new peaceful Iran freed of tyranny".

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.

Most Iranian opposition circles and groups, such as SMCCDI, have condemned unanimously the Islamic regime and the persistent human rights abuses in Iran following the tragic death.

Akbar Mohamadi has been qualified, by many Iranians as "Iran's Bobby Sands". Sands was an "Irish Republican Army" (IRA) activist who died, in 1981, during hunger strike in British prisons.