Kamran Hedayati

Kamran Hedayati (born 1 April 1949 in Iran, died 6 July 1996 in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Iranian-Kurdish dissident who was assassinated in Sweden in the 1990s. In January 1992, Hedayati was seriously wounded after opening a letter bomb in his apartment in Västerås, Sweden. He lost his his hands and sight in the attack and died from his wounds four years later. The murder remains officially unsolved. However, the Iranian government is widely believed to have ordered the assassination, as it had many similarities with other assassinations and assassination attempts on Iranian-Kurdish dissidents around the world at this time. [cite news |first=Mehrdad |last=Darvishpour |title=Säpo skyddar Irans flyktingspioner |url=http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/artikel_111362.svd |publisher=Svenska Dagbladet |date=2003-09-30 |accessdate=2008-01-03 |language=Swedish] Four years earlier, in 1990, a Kurdish woman named Effat Ghazi was killed in a similar attack through letter bombing in her apartment in Västerås.

See also

*Effat Ghazi
*Karim Mohammedzadeh

References

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NAME=Hedayati, Kamran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Hedayeti, Kamran
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Assassinated Iranian-Kurdish dissident
DATE OF BIRTH=1 April 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH=Iran
DATE OF DEATH=6 July 1996
PLACE OF DEATH=Stockholm, Sweden