Prof. Abdolreza Soudbakhsh (1950 – 21 September 2010) was an Iranian physician and university professor who examined prisoners during the

2009 Iranian election protests After incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory in the 2009 Iranian presidential election, protests broke out in major cities across Iran in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The protests con ...

. He was assassinated in front of his medical office at 9pm on September 21, 2010. Jaras News Agency cited that Soudbakhsh had treated and examined prisoners of the Kahrizak detention center, and was under pressure to report all the genital and urinary infections (caused by repetitive rapes) as meningitis, and his resistance to keep his oath was the reason for his assassination.

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1950 births 2010 deaths Academic staff of Tehran University of Medical Sciences People from Bandar-e Anzali Assassinated Iranian people 2010 murders in Iran 20th-century Iranian physicians 21st-century Iranian physicians {{Iran-med-bio-stub