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Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh (also spelled Mohammad-Jafar Pooyandeh or Mohammad Jafar Poyandeh, ) (7 June 1954 – 8 or 9 December 1998) was an
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writer, translator and activist. He was a member of the Iranian Writers Association, 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 () 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 and disappearances were carried out by Iranian gover ...
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
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, and he appeared to have been strangled.


See also

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Ahmad Tafazzoli Ahmad Tafazzoli (December 16, 1937, Isfahan – January 15, 1997, Tehran) () was an Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at Tehran University. One of his most important books is ''Pre-Islamic Persian Literature ...
*
Chain murders of Iran The chain murders of Iran () 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 and disappearances were carried out by Iranian gover ...
*
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* List of kidnappings * List of murder ...
*
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* Mohammad Mokhtari


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NY Times article, ''As Slain Secular Writer Is Buried, Iran Blames a Foreign 'Network' ''from December 16th, 1998
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