Valiullah Faiz Mahdavi, also died after starting a hunger strike when his appeal for a temporary relief from prison was denied.
Mahdavi was arrested in 2001 and charged him with "armed resistance against the state." He was sentenced to death in a trial where he was denied access to a lawyer but in June the chief of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, commuted his sentence to life in prison.
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