It appears that journalist and blogger Omidreza Mir Sayafi, whose death in Iran’s Evin Prison we reported yesterday, committed suicide.

After his sentence of more than two years for insulting Ayatollahs Khameini and Khomeini, Sayafi wrote:

I am a cultural and not a political blogger. Of all the articles I have posted online, only two or three were satirical. I did not mean to insult anyone.

I am worried. The problem is not my sentence of two years in prison. But I am a sensitive person. I will not have the energy to live in prison. I want everything to be like it was before. I want to resume my normal life and continue my studies.

News is emerging of the death of journalist and blogger Omidreza Mir Sayafi in Evin prison in Iran.

The 29-year-old Safayi’s blogs were mostly on music and culture, but he was charged with “insulting Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei” and inciting others against national security. He was sentenced to two years in prison. A pending case accused him of “insulting sacred values”.
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