In Iran, the suicide of opposition determine Kianoosh Sanjari sends shockwaves by social media – Cyber Tech

Kianoosh Sanjari, to those that knew him, was a well mannered, light man who was deeply dedicated to Iran. Tragically, on Wednesday, November 13, on the age of 42, this human rights activist, blogger and journalist dedicated suicide. In a publish he had made on X that morning, he wrote, “If by 7 pm in the present day, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, [political prisoners] Fatemeh Sepehri, Nasreen Shakrami, Toomaj Salehi, and Arsham Rezaei usually are not launched from jail … , I’ll finish my life in protest towards the dictatorship of [Supreme Leader] Khamenei and his companions. Let this be a wake-up name! Lengthy dwell Iran.”

Regardless of this declaration, the 4 prisoners weren’t launched, and Sanjari’s determined enchantment acquired no official response from the Iranian authorities. At 7 pm, he posted a photograph taken from the balcony of a shopping mall close to the Hafez Bridge in central Tehran, with these phrases: “My life will finish after this tweet, however allow us to not neglect that we give our lives out of affection for all times, not for dying. Might Iranians get up and overcome slavery.”

The suicide of Sanjari, whose successive arrests had raised public consciousness, despatched shockwaves by Iranian social media, the place many noticed it as an emblem of the impasse, despair and misery felt by Iranians against the federal government.

Accused of ‘propaganda towards the regime’

At age 16, Sanjari was arrested for the primary time through the pupil protests of 1999. He then spent a number of months in solitary confinement earlier than being launched. In 2007, after one other arrest, he secretly fled to Iraqi Kurdistan earlier than acquiring political asylum in Norway after which in america, the place he labored for the Persian service of Voice of America (VOA).

Then in October 2016, regardless of warnings from pals and several other NGOs, he returned to Iran to take care of his aged, ailing mom. A couple of weeks later, he was arrested once more and sentenced to 5 years in jail with out parole, six years suspended and a two-year journey ban for “meeting and conspiracy, propaganda towards the regime and membership in an unlawful group.”

Launched in March 2022 after three years, Sanjari left Iran once more, this time for america, however difficulties pressured him to return to his nation, the place he was briefly imprisoned in June 2022. In November 2022, through the wave of protests following the dying of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, he was as soon as once more arrested for his posts criticizing the Islamic Republic.

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