Majid Sharif | |
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Born | 1950 |
Died | November 1998 Tehran |
Nationality | Iranian |
Occupation | translator, journalist |
Majid Sharif (Persian: مجید شریف) was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati.[1] Articles by him criticizing government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.[2]
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Majid Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.
In November 1998, Majid Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned.[3] On November 18, 1998 he was found on the side of a road in Tehran and identified by his mother in the coroner's office six days later on November 24, 1998.[4] The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.[5]