Majid Sharif (; January/February 1951– November 19, 1998) 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.[ Iranterror.com ] Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.[ Background Briefing On The Killings in Iran Human Rights Watch 1998 ]
Education
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, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned.
[Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.135] On November 19, 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 25, 1998. The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.
[ Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances" Amnesty International 1998]
See also
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Chain murders of Iran
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Human rights in Iran
