Omid Mousavi, one of the detainees of the November 2019 Protests, died of a heart attack during his detention.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Omid Mousavi, one of the wounded and detained during the November 2019 protests, died at the age of 22, on the evening of January 11th, 2022.
According to the report, Twitter recorded 1,500 images of the political prisoner who was shot during the November protests and tortured after his arrest.
Omid Mousavi was sentenced to five years in prison by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic and was released from prison in April 2022 after spending 15 months in detention.
One of Omid Mousavi’s cellmate told Iran Wire that he had been arrested by security police at his home on November 20th, 2019.
According to Omid Mousavi cellmate, he was also harassed by prison guards in prison for chanting slogans against the government of the Islamic Republic, and was transferred to different prison wards several times.
This former cellmate of Omid Mousavi said that he had an elderly mother and was the breadwinner of his family.
The November 2019 protests first began in response to a sudden and unannounced increase in gasoline price, but quickly spread to almost the entire country, targeting all important sovereignty and symbols of the Islamic Republic.
The protests were met with unprecedented repression by the government of the Islamic Republic, with direct fire to the head of protesters with semi heavy weapons, the arrest and torture of thousands of people, and the abduction of the bodies of those killed.
The exact number of people killed in the protests is not known, but according to Reuters, 1,500 people were killed in the protests.