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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:59:01 -0500
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>prominent writers have been killed in the last four weeks in Iran. All of
>the writers were critics of
> the government; all lived in Tehran. The police have so far not announced
>any suspects.
>
> *Jafar Pouyandeh, a translator and writer, disappeared on
> December 9 while on his way to a meeting of publishers at 2.00
> p.m. in midtown Tehran. His body was found on December 13.
> The family was contacted by the police who informed them that
> his body had been found in Shar-e Ray, a suburb of Tehran, and
> had been moved to a Tehran city morgue. According to the
> family, Pouyandeh was apparently strangled although no autopsy
> has yet been carried out.
>
> *The body of Mohammad Mokhtari, a writer and poet, was
> found in a Tehran city morgue on December 9. He was last seen
> alive on December 3, going to a local shop. Marks on his head
> and neck made it appear that he had been murdered, possibly by
> strangulation. Pouyandeh and Mokhtari had been summoned
> with four other prominent writers on October 1998 by the
> authorities in connection with their attempt to establish an
> independent writers association.
>
> *The body of Majid Sharif, a prominent writer and political
> critic, was found by police in a Tehran street and the family was
> able to identify it at the Tehran city morgue on November 24. He
> had disappeared on November 20. Sharif's articles criticizing
> government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e
> Farda (Iran's Tomorrow), which was closed down by court
> order on December 5.
>
> *Darioush Forouhar, and his wife Parvaneh Forouhar (née Eskandari),were
>stabbed to death
> in their Tehran home on November 22. Forouhar was the leader of the banned
>Iran Nation Party
> and a former minister of labor in the transitional government of Mehdi
>Bazargan. His wife Parvaneh
> was a prominent critic of the Iranian government. The Forouhars frequently
>protested the
> restrictions placed on their nonviolent political activities by the Iranian
>authorities and had
> expressed fear about their personal safety.
>
> These murders appear to be part of a pattern of government-condoned
>repression directed against
> critics in Iran going back many years. Many killings of government critics
>over the last ten years
> remain unsolved. They include: Dr. Kazem Sami, a former minister of health
>in the transitional
> government of Mehdi Bazargan and leader of a liberal Islamic movement, who
>was stabbed to
> death in his office in Tehran in November 1988; Bishop Haik Hovasepian
>Mehr, who came to
> international prominence while leading a campaign for the release of Pastor
>Mehdi Dibaj and was
> murdered in January 1994; Hossein Barazandeh-Lagha, an independent Islamic
>scholar critical
> of the government, who was murdered in the city of Mashhad in March 1994;
>Pastor Mehdi
> Dibaj, who converted from Islam to Christianity, and had been imprisoned in
>Sari, northeast Iran
> from 1983 to 1994, and was killed in July 1994; Haji Mohammad Ziaie, a
>Sunni Muslim leader
> from Bandar-Abas, known to be critical of government policies, who was
>found dead in July
> 1994; Dr. Ahmad Mir-Allai, a member of the editorial board of the cultural
>magazine
> Zendehroud, who was found dead in the street in Isfahan in October 1995;
>Professor Ahmad
> Tafazzoli of Tehran University who was found dead in Punak, a suburb
>northwest of Tehran in
> January 1997; Ebrahim Zalzadeh, a publisher whose body was discovered at
>the morgue in the
> Tehran city coroner's department in March 1997; and Molavi Imam Bakhsh
>Narouie, the
> prayer leader of a Sunni mosque, who was killed in the town of Miyankangi
>in Sistan va
> Baluchestan province in June 1998.
>
>**********************************************************
>"Les evidences ont ete historiquement constituees, elles peuvent etre, du
>coup, politiquement   detruites."
>  J.Colombel
>

"Solidarity is running the same risks."
                        - Che Guevara
("La solidarieta' significa correre gli stessi rischi.")




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