Ebrahim Zalzadeh

Ebrahim Zalzadeh (~1948-February 22, 1997) was a dissident Iranian author and editor who was murdered in 1997 in what is thought to have been one of the "chain murders" of dissidents by "rogue elements" in Iran's intelligence ministry.

Zalzadeh was editor of the Iranian literary monthly "Mayar" (also spelled "Me'yer"), a publication that frequently criticized Iranian government censorship practices against the media, and was forced to close by the authorities in 1995. [ [http://www.cpj.org/deadly/1997_list.html CJP. Journalists Killed in 1997: Ebrahim Zalzadeh, Mayar, February 22, 1997, Tehran ] ] He was also the director of the publishing house Ebtekar.

Zalzadeh disappeared on February 22, 1997 and was identified in a Tehran morgue on March 29. [ [http://www.cpj.org/deadly/1997_list.html CJP Journalists Killed in 1997: Ebrahim Zalzadeh, Mayar, February 22, 1997, Tehran ] ] According to the coroner's report his body was discovered half-buried and with multiple stab wounds in the chest, on or about February 24 by a road in the outskirts of Tehran. [ [http://www.newseum.org/scripts/Journalist/Detail.asp?PhotoID=1196 Freedom Forum Jourists Memorial EBRAHIM ZALZADEH ] ] He was in a Tehran morgue on March 29. [ [http://www.iran.org/humanrights/UN971015.htm Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1997)] ] 35 days after it had been reported missing.

"Zalzadeh was one of several Iranian writers and publishers who had volunteered to share the punishment of magazine editor Abbas Maroufi, who was sentenced in January 1996 to six months in prison and 35 lashes for criticizing the government." [ [http://www.cpj.org/deadly/1997_list.html CJP Journalists Killed in 1997: Ebrahim Zalzadeh, Mayar, February 22, 1997, Tehran ] ]

ources

* [http://www.newseum.org/scripts/Journalist/Detail.asp?PhotoID=1196 Freedom Forum Jourists Memorial EBRAHIM ZALZADEH ]
* [http://www.cpj.org/deadly/1997_list.html CJP Journalists Killed in 1997: Ebrahim Zalzadeh, Mayar, February 22, 1997, Tehran ]

References