Activist on Hunger Strike Dies in Prison
From Times Wire Reports
A jailed student activist has died in Tehran’s most notorious prison after a nine-day hunger strike to protest a lack of medical care, a human rights group said.
Akbar Mohammadi, 34, who died Sunday in Evin prison, was arrested for taking part in protests at Tehran University in July 1999, Iran’s biggest anti-government demonstrations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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