Cairo, Dec 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Twenty-six year old Iranian whistleblower Ramin who blew the lid off the torture of jailed protesters in Iran has now died from being poisoned from salad, which was laced, with poison.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether his death last month was a suicide or murder, Tehran public prosecutor Abbas Dowlatabadi said, according to the state news agency IRNA.

His scandalous revelations of torture against prisoners in Iran’s post-election turmoil has triggered off a wave of protest amongst the government supporters and has also deeply troubled the country’s clerical leadership and security forces.

The place in question where all the torture took place is Kahrizak, which is a prison on the outskirts of Tehran, where hundreds of opposition protesters were taken. Many people who were there have died, and the prison became so infamous that Iran’s leader was left with no option but to close it down.

Ramin died under very mysterious circumstances on 10th November. “A large number of these pills must be used for a person to pass away from them,” he said. “It is impossible to accuse him of suicide,” Masood Pezeshkian was quoted Wednesday as saying by the pro-opposition Web site Roozonline. “The idea of suicide by someone who had no problems and no serious disease – and was present during the events at Kahrizak – seems questionable to us.”