His crime? Thinking, using his brain and speaking out against the mullahnazi regime. Where are those imbeciles who always comment here that islam promotes free speech? Funny, they always remain silent when a muslim regime kills someone for voicing their opinion.

Iranian Blogger Reported Dead in Prison

Omid Reza Misayafi, one of a number of Iranian bloggers arrested for “insulting” the government and religious authorities in that country, is dead. Misayafi’s death was reported on Global Voices Online via an Iranian human rights site in Farsi and we learned of it from The Committee to Protect Bloggers.

No cause of death is yet known, but the Committee says torture of bloggers is common in Iran and they are usually placed in close proximity to the most dangerous criminals in any facility. Misayafi was sentenced in December to 30 months in prison “for insulting Islamic Republic Leaders.” The man said he was a cultural blogger, not a political one, and only wrote a few satirical articles that got him into trouble.

An update tonight indicates that the prison conditions may have led the man to take his own life. Directly or indirectly, it appears that Misayafi’s life has been brought to an end for exercising free speech, for criticizing an authoritarian state and for doing it using online social media. Social media users and advocates around the world should take note of this event.

We’ve reported here on a number of bloggers imprisoned in Iran and in Egypt for documenting government abuses or just writing critical words about governments that demand total compliance. In the middle of last year we wrote about Iran’s parliament debating legislation that would add the death penalty to the list of possible punishments for using blogs to challenge government authority.

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Yup, those islamic hardliners aren’t real keen on free thought or speech. Goes to show how weak their position is, steeped in worshipping a 7th century pedophile maniac, that they have to jail and kill anyone who dares speak out against their tyranny.

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