Mohammad Mokhtari (writer)
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This article is about the Iranian writer murdered in 1998. For the Iranian student protester shot and killed in 2011, see
Mohammad Mokhtari (protester).
Tomb of Mohammad Mokhtari
Mohammad Mokhtari (Persian: محمد مختاری ) (April 21, 1942 - December 1998[1]) was an Iranian writer who was murdered on the outskirts of Tehran in the course of the Chain Murders of Iran. He left his residence at five o'clock in the afternoon of December 2 1998, reportedly to buy light bulbs on Jordan Boulevard in north Tehran.[2] His body was identified at the coroner's office on December 8 1998,[3] he had died of suffocation.[4] His murder came a few days after that of another writer, translator Majid Sharif. He was interrogated and threatened by Intelligence Ministry a few times to stop working at Kanun-e Nevisandegan.
His murder was initially blamed on a foreign "network".[5] Later, blame was placed upon "rogue elements" in the intelligence ministry.[6].
He was a political prisoner for a few years after the Islamic Revolution of Iran. He served at bonyad-e-shahname before 1979.
Mokhtari was a member of a group of writers who helped to re-establish the writers association, Kanun-e Nevisandegan.[1] In 1994, he had signed a manifesto demanding freedom of speech.[7]
See also
References and notes
- ^ a b DEATH PENALTY NEWS March 2001
- ^ Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.135
- ^ The Dissident Murders The Iranian,
- ^ Ebadi, , Iran Awakening, (2006), p.135
- ^ As Slain Secular Writer Is Buried, Iran Blames a Foreign 'Network' 16 December 1998
- ^ Iranians Assert Rogue Officers Slew Dissidents 6 January 1999
- ^ Iran terror database, serial murders (part 1)
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