Omid Reza Mir Sayafi (also Omidreza Mirsayafi; 1979/80 – March 18, 2009 in Evin Prison in Tehran[1]) was an Iranian blogger and journalist.
Mir Sayafi was the first blogger to have died while in prison for his publication. Two other bloggers were killed afterward, and they are the Bahraini blogger Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, who was killed in April 2011 and Brazilian blogger Edinaldo Filgueira, who was killed June 2011.[2]
- ^ "Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger Dies in Prison". GlobalVoices. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ^ Curt Hopkins. 2011. "Brazilian blogger assasinated [sic]." ReadWriteWeb, June 23. Retrieved 4 November 2011 from the Lexis-Nexis Database.