Lyon’s public prosecutor’s place of business in jap France introduced on Tuesday that it used to be investigating the loss of life of an Iranian nationwide, Mohammad Moradi “in order to verify the hypothesis of suicide”.
The 38-year-old had posted a video throughout social media platforms revealing that he supposed to die to lift consciousness of Tehran’s crackdown on protests in Iran sooner than he threw himself into the Rhône River.
“Mohammad Moradi committed suicide to make the voice of the revolution heard in Iran, our voice is not propagated by the Western media”, lambasted Tuesday Timothée Amini, a spokesperson for some 3,000 contributors of the Iranian neighborhood in Lyon all the way through a rally on the Gallieni Bridge.
A small crowd of mourners positioned candles, bouquets of roses and pictures of the deceased at the railings, sooner than turning in speeches and songs.
“We are entitled to Ukraine every morning, but we hear very little about Iran. It’s difficult to live for us, Iranians in the diaspora”, insisted Mr Amini, a political refugee operating in pc science.
“His heart beat for Iran, he no longer supported this regime,” he mentioned.
According to a number of contributors of the Iranian neighborhood, Mohammad Moradi used to be a historical past undergraduate and labored in a cafe. He’d been dwelling in Lyon together with his spouse for 3 years.
“The police are attacking people, we have lost a lot of sons and daughters, we have to do something,” mentioned Moradi in a relaxed voice in his video.
“I decided to commit suicide in the Rhone river, it is a challenge to show that we, Iranian people, are very tired of this situation”, he introduced.
“When you watch this video, I will be dead,” he persisted, sooner than calling for beef up for the Iranian folks of their combat towards “extremely violent police and government”.
Iran has noticed a wave of protests because the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish lady who died in police custody greater than 3 months in the past, she used to be arrested for having worn the Islamic veil incorrectly.
In a document printed on Tuesday, Iran Human Rights (IHR), an NGO primarily based in Oslo, reported 476 protesters had been killed since mid-September.
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