One of the protesters in Kermanshah committed suicide in November 2019 after becoming blind and experiencing financial poverty.

One of the November 2019 protesters in Kermanshah ended his life earlier this year due to mental problems resulting from being blinded after being hit by a shotgun during the protests and financial poverty.

The human rights website Hengaw, which covers news from the Kurdish regions of Iran, identified the citizen as Mohsen Mahmoudi Kiryani, 28, and said that he was directly targeted by security forces with a shotgun in Kermanshah's Garage Square on November 15, 2019, and was arrested.

According to this report, both of Mr. Mahmoudi's eyes were drained due to deprivation of medical services during his detention and delayed dispatch to medical centers, which is why he became blind.

An informed source told Hengaw that after his release, the security agencies had promised Mr. Mahmoudi's family that they would pay him blood money if they did not report the news to the media, but after 18 months, they took no action in this regard, and he finally ended his life by hanging himself on May 5 of this year due to financial problems and mental problems resulting from his blindness.

According to this report, security agencies and members of the Kiryan village council in Kermanshah province had so far prevented the media from reporting the news of his suicide by putting pressure on Mr. Mahmoudi's family.

Hengaw had previously reported that at least 32 citizens were killed in Kermanshah during the November 2019 protests.

Previously, another person arrested in November 2019 in Kermanshah, identified as Reza Omidi Yarijani, 22, had hanged himself in Kermanshah's Dizel Abad Prison in March 2019 after being sentenced to prison by prison officials.

The news of the suicide of Mohsen Mahmoudi Kiryani, one of the November 2019 protesters in Kermanshah, has been reported in the media after 9 months, when, according to official confirmation from Iranian military officials and videos released from the December 2019 protests in Isfahan, security forces violently suppressed these protests by firing directly at the protesters, especially using shotgun pellets.

The Iranian Human Rights Organization also announced that about 40 people lost at least one eye due to being hit by a shotgun blast during the Isfahan protests.

Meanwhile, the second round of the International People's Court of Aban to investigate the suppression of protests during that period began on Friday, February 5, in London, and several witnesses are scheduled to testify during this round of the trial about their experiences of the suppression of protests.

In the previous round of this trial, which was held in November of this year by the organizations "Justice for Iran", "Iranian Human Rights", and the international organization "Together Against the Death Penalty", 34 witnesses and six expert witnesses presented their documents and evidence.

According to reports, after reviewing the documents of new witnesses, the court's prosecution has also accused 27 other Islamic Republic officials of "crimes against humanity" for their participation in the November 2019 crackdown.

The November 2019 protests, which were initially a reaction to the sudden increase in gasoline prices, quickly changed direction and targeted the Islamic Republic government. However, these protests were met with severe repression, resulting in hundreds of deaths.

The exact number of people killed in these crackdowns is not known, but Reuters, while announcing that at least 1,500 people were killed in the November 2019 protests, wrote, citing "three sources close to Khamenei's inner circle" and a fourth official, that the Leader of the Islamic Republic had told senior officials in the country to "do whatever is necessary to stop" the protests.

Source: Radio Farda