Farshid Hakki ( fa, فرشید هکی ; born 1974) was a lawyer, lecturer,

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, researcher, human rights activist and

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. Farshid Hakki was also a candidate for the Tehran City Council. He was a member of the "Seda-ye Pa-ye Ab", an environmental campaign in support of Zagros Mountain range and was the author of a number of books including ''Human Rights for All'', and ''

The Political Economy of Human Rights ''The Political Economy of Human Rights'' is a 1979 two-volume work by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman. The authors offer a critique of United States foreign policy, particularly in Indochina. Summary Chomsky and Herman discuss United States ...

''. He went missing on the night of Saturday October 17, 2018 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. After his deceased body was found, his family was informed that his body had knife wounds and had been burned. Mohammad Moghimi, his family lawyer, called the death "a suspicious murder". State Media in Iran have published conflicting reports stating that the cause of death was suicide and that Hakki had set himself on fire. Iranian opposition parties have accused the Iranian government of being responsible, highlighting the increasing violence against activists in the southern

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'', "Farshid Hakki was reportedly stabbed to death near his house in Tehran and his body then burned. Shortly after the news of his death broke out on social media, on 22 October, Tehran's police authorities claimed that he had committed suicide by self-immolation. Not unlike its Saudi rival, the Islamic Republic has a long history of trying to cover up state-sanctioned attempts to physically eliminate its critics, too."

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