From: vacirca-AT-charm.net Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:59:01 -0500 Subject: news iran important >X-Sender: aoliai-AT-students.wisc.edu >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:16:44 -0600 >To: ruff-AT-danenet.wicip.org >From: "a.oliai" <aoliai-AT-students.wisc.edu> >Subject: news iran important >Cc: vacirca-AT-charm.net >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by fellspt.charm.net >id BAA05569 > > >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.") --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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