Majid Sharif

Majid Sharif Vaghefi
مجید شریف
Born 1950
Died November 1998
Tehran
Nationality Iranian
Occupation translator, journalist

Majid Sharif (1950–1988) 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 Iranian 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]

Education

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.

Death

In November 1998, 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. The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Terror Database, The Serial Murders Iranterror.com Archived September 11, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Background Briefing On The Killings in Iran Human Rights Watch 1998 Archived November 15, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.135
  4. ↑ Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances" Amnesty International 1998


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