According to Jamshidi, Saber stopped eating food and later stopped drinking water in protest at the death of his fellow dissident Haleh Sahabi, who died of a heart attack during scuffles with security forces at the funeral of her father, Ezatollah Sahabi – also a leading political activist – on
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Iranian opposition figure dies of heart attack while on hunger strike
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