Mohammad

Jafar

Pouyandeh:

(Born:

1954,

Assassinated 1998) was an Iranian writer, translator

and activist. He was a member of the Iranian
Writers Association, a group that had been long
banned in Iran due to their objection to censorship
and encouraged freedom of expression. Pouyandeh
worked at the Cultural Research Institute and was
working on translating a book called Questions &
Answer about Human Rights at the time of his death.
Death: Pouyandeh was last seen alive leaving his office at four o'clock in the
afternoon of December 8, 1998 and still hadn't returned home three days
later when his wife wrote and delivered a letter to Iran's President expressing
her anguish over his disappearance. His body was discovered strangled in
December 11.Based on the confessions of Iranian agents, he was considered

as one of the victims of Iranian Intelligence Services plan to eliminate the

opposition intellectuals.