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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