Officials Claim Med Student Killed At Demo Actually Overdosed

Iranian officials are claiming that a medical student allegedly beaten to death by security forces actually died from a drug overdose.

Witnesses allege that medical student Sina Malairi was fatally struck on the head with a baton at a demonstration in Arak, in Markazi Province, on 22nd October.

But Rabi Elah Ghorbani of the Markazi prosecutor’s office claimed on 25th October that “no fractures of the limbs, neck, or skull, or bleed on the brain, were observed” during his autopsy.

Ghorbani went on to claim that “multi-drug tests were positive for amphetamines, methamphetamine, and morphine”.

Sina Malairi, 34, poses in undated photo. According to some reports he was killed by government officials, but the official report claims lists the cause as drugs. (CEN)

Sina – the son of a renowned local doctor – was in his early 30s. Mourners were filmed chanting against Iran’s clerical regime at his funeral on 24th October.

It is not the first time Iranian officials have allegedly tried to pin the blame for protesters’ deaths on the victims themselves.

Nagin Abdulmaleki – a student of biomedical engineering at Hamadan University of Technology – was also killed when security forces allegedly struck her on the head with a baton at a demo in Hamadan on 20th October.

Hasan Khanjani of the Hamadan prosecutor’s office, however, claimed the 21-year-old actually died of “alcohol poisoning”.

Protesters at the funeral of Sina Malairi, 34, in Arak, Iran, on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. According to some reports he was killed by government officials, but the official report claims lists the cause as drugs. (CEN)

Since the Mahsa Amini protests erupted on 16th September, Iranian officials have been accused of ascribing scarcely-believable causes of death to demonstrators allegedly killed by security officials.

Excuses proffered by the Islamic regime so far include ‘jumping from a height’, ‘underlying diseases’, and ‘suicide’.

At least 283 people are reported to have been killed in Iran during the protests so far.