A Facebook software engineer told CNBC on Tuesday that he was fired by the company in part for speaking out about his colleague's suicide last month.

Yi Yin joined Facebook's core growth team in July and he was fired after he participated in a protest demanding justice for Qin Chen, an employee who committed suicide at the company's headquarters on Sept. 19.

"We need the truth. We need a fair investigation on what on earth had happened," Yin told ABC 7 at the protest on Sept. 26.

Yin told CNBC he spoke with the press at the protest because he had heard rumors that Chen may have been an H-1B visa worker and worried about his future after receiving a poor performance review by his superiors. Chen worked in Facebook's advertisement engineering team, which Yin and others said is notorious for being a high-stress unit. Yin did not know Chen, but said he believes rumors that Chen was bullied by his manager at Facebook.

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