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Killed Dissident Buried Despite Family Protest
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Aug 1, 2006

Akbar Mohammadi, an imprisoned activist who died on Sunday at the infamous Evin Political jail, is believed to have been killed, by security agents intending to break his resistance. The victim was observing a hunger strike in order to protest the inhumane conditions of Iran's political prisoners.

The belief of Mohamadi's murder - happened due to harsh torture and heavy beating - has become stronger as the Islamic regime has proceeded immediately, and without the presence of any family member or their consentment, to the victim's burial. Authorities have declared that the body has been inhumated in an isolated village located at 30 miles of the remote northern City of Amol.

The Islamic regime's authorities have rejected all objections and protests, made by Mohamadi's old parents - who had shortened their Turkish trip by learning the news of the death - by invoking that the decision of the burial was made "in order to preserve the integrity of the victim" and "in accordance with Islamic laws".  An official has even indicated that an autopsy has been performed and that the results would be declared in the next days.

Already Mohamadi's parents were arrested upon their arrival at Tehran Airport and transferred forcibly to Amol under heavy security measures.

The victim, who was observing a Hunger Strike at the time of his sudden death, was reported as . having been beaten severely by prison guards and seen as having been chained to the prison's hospital bed earlier in the day. Reports from inside the Prison are stating that the security agents were hoping to break his resistance and to show that he has put an end to the strike. But some of Mohamadi's last words have been 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".

Mohamadi 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.

His death, while in captivity at Evin, and his rush burial are very similar to the dark fate of Zahra Kazemi who was an Iranian-Canadian reporter killed in 2003. Kazemi, who was arrested, raped and tortured, was immediately buried by the Islamic regime despite a wave of International protest and objections made by his family and by the Canadian Government.

Amnesty International, the US Government and most Iranian opposition circles and groups, such as SMCCDI and the Marzeporgohar Party, have condemned unanimously the Islamic regime and the persistent human rights abuses in Iran following Mohamadi's tragic death.

Many Iranians will organize, On Friday and inside and outside Iran, ceremonies in order to pay tribute to the maverick activist who stood till his last breath against the Islamic republic regime.

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