Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh (also spelled Mohammad-Jafar Pooyandeh or Mohammad Jafar Poyandeh, fa, محمد جعفر پوینده) (7 June 1954 – 8 or 9 December 1998) was an
Iranian
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* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
writer, translator and activist. He was a member of the
Iranian Writers Association
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* Iran, a sovereign state
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, a group who had been long banned in Iran due to their objection to censorship and encouraged freedom of expression. He was most likely murdered during the
Chain murders of Iran
The chain murders of Iran ( fa, قتلهای زنجیرهای ایران) were a series of 1988–98 murders and disappearances of certain Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system. The murders an ...
in 1998.
Biography
Pouyandeh worked at the Cultural Research Institute and was working on translating a book called ''Questions & Answer about Human Rights'' at the time of his death. Pouyandeh was not a well known writer, translator, or activist in Iran and he is essentially known for his unusual circumstance of death.
Pouyandeh was last seen alive leaving his office at four o'clock in the afternoon of December 8, 1998 and still hadn't returned home three days later when his wife wrote and delivered a letter to Iran's President expressing her anguish over his disappearance. His body was discovered December 11. in the
Shahriar district of Karaj, south of
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 ...
, and he appeared to have been strangled.
See also
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Ahmad Tafazzoli
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Chain murders of Iran
The chain murders of Iran ( fa, قتلهای زنجیرهای ایران) were a series of 1988–98 murders and disappearances of certain Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system. The murders an ...
*
List of solved missing person cases
Lists of solved missing person cases include:
* List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000
* List of solved missing person cases: post-2000
See also
* List of kidnappings
* List of murder convictions without a body
* List of people who di ...
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List of unsolved murders
These lists of unsolved murders include notable cases where victims were murdered in unknown circumstances.
* List of unsolved murders (before 1900)
* List of unsolved murders (1900–1979)
* List of unsolved murders (1980–1999)
* List of u ...
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Mohammad Mokhtari
References
External links
NY Times article, ''As Slain Secular Writer Is Buried, Iran Blames a Foreign 'Network' ''from December 16th, 1998
1954 births
1990s missing person cases
1998 deaths
20th-century translators
Burials at Emamzadeh Taher
Deaths by strangulation
Formerly missing people
Iranian critics
Iranian murder victims
Iranian translators
Iranian Writers Association members
Missing person cases in Iran
Male murder victims
People murdered in Iran
Persian-language writers
Unsolved murders in Iran
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