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Mohammad-Jafar Pouyandeh
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Mohammad-Jafar Pouyandeh

محمدجعفر پوینده

Sex
male
Date of death
9 December 1998
Place of death
Badamak, Shahriar (+6 more)
Hometown
Tehran
Event
Chain Murders of Iran (+1 more)
Profession
translator, writer
Cause of death
killed by injection as part of the state-sponsored Chain Murders

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Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh was an Iranian translator, writer, and an active member of the Iranian Writers' Association. He disappeared from his home on December 9, 1998, and his body was found ten days later in Badamak, Shahriar. He was killed by injection as part of the state-sponsored Chain Murders. Pouyandeh was known for translating many works of the Frankfurt School's critical theory.

محمدجعفر پوینده مترجم و نویسنده ایرانی و از اعضای فعال کانون نویسندگان ایران بود. او در ۱۸ آذر ۱۳۷۷ (۹ دسامبر ۱۹۹۸) از خانه خود خارج شد و ده روز بعد پیکرش در روستای بادامک شهریار پیدا شد. وی با تزریق و در جریان قتل‌های زنجیره‌ای حکومتی به قتل رسید. پوینده بسیاری از آثار مکتب تفکر انتقادی فرانکفورت را ترجمه کرده بود.

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Mohammad-Jafar Pouyandeh was an Iranian translator and writer and an active member of the Iranian Writers' Association. He translated many works of the Frankfurt School's critical theory and was also known as a left-wing sociologist. On December 9, 1998, Pouyandeh disappeared from his home in Tehran. His body was found ten days later in Badamak village, Shahriar. He was killed by injection as part of the state-sponsored Chain Murders, a series of political assassinations linked to agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence. Before his disappearance and murder, the Ministry of Intelligence had interrogated him. A few days before his death, agents reportedly visited his bookstore and photographed him.

محمدجعفر پوینده مترجم و نویسنده ایرانی و از اعضای فعال کانون نویسندگان ایران بود. او بسیاری از آثار مکتب انتقادی فرانکفورت را ترجمه کرد و به‌عنوان جامعه‌شناس چپ‌گرا نیز شناخته می‌شد. در ۱۸ آذر ۱۳۷۷ (۹ دسامبر ۱۹۹۸) پوینده از خانه‌اش در تهران ناپدید شد. پیکرش ده روز بعد در روستای بادامک شهریار پیدا شد. او با تزریق در قتل‌های زنجیره‌ای حکومتی کشته شد؛ این سلسله ترورهای سیاسی به عوامل وزارت اطلاعات ایران نسبت داده می‌شود. پیش از ناپدید شدن و قتلش، وزارت اطلاعات او را بازجوئی کرده بود. چند روز قبل از مرگش، گزارش شده مأموران به کتابفروشی‌اش رفته و از او عکس گرفته بودند.

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