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Majid Sharif 
Born 1950 Died November 1998
TehranNationality Iranian Occupation translator, journalist Majid Sharif (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 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]
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Education
Majid 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, Majid 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.[4] The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Terror Database, The Serial Murders Iranterror.com
- ^ Background Briefing On The Killings in Iran Human Rights Watch 1998
- ^ Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.135
- ^ The Dissident Murders iranmania.com
- ^ Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances" Amnesty International 1998
Categories:- Iranian writers
- Iranian translators
- Iranian journalists
- Iranian murder victims
- 1998 deaths
- People murdered in Iran
- Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra
- Unsolved murders in Iran
- 1950 births
- Sharif University of Technology alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Iranian writer stubs
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