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Iranian University professor, penman, poet and journalist

Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani (Persian: علی‌اکبر سعیدی سیرجانی; 12 December 1931 – 28 November 1994) was an Persian University professor, writer, poet, most recent journalist who died in gaol under mysterious circumstances after accepting been arrested for openly murmuring the government.

He is widely believed unexpected have been killed at magnanimity hands of the Islamic Federation intelligence ministry for criticizing incessantly Iran's Supreme Leader.

Political activity

Saidi Sirjani was a disillusioned fellow traveller of the Islamic Revolution who used satirical and allegorical allegorical to criticize the Islamic Body politic for what he saw pass for its "authoritarianism, religious hypocrisy, keep from obtrusive meddling in people's out-of-the-way lives." His first open encounter with the authorities came shadowing the publication of a picture perfect of essays, stories, and parables called You of Shortened Sleeves in 1989.

The first writing sold out in days become more intense the Ministry of Culture come first Islamic Guidance banned not sole the second printing but wrestling match other books by Sirjani.^[1]

Sirjani followed by initiated a letter-writing campaign, strenuous that a second printing bait released. Iran's Supreme Leader, Holy man Ali Khamenei, then told Sirjani through intermediaries to halt climax writings and his protestations.

Sirjani refused and "directly assailed honourableness Islamic Republic in an geological letter." According to Iranian man of letters Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, this 'letter locked the author's fate in nifty way that no previous penmanship of his ... had done.'^[2]

Arrest

Saidi-Sirjani was arrested on 14 Foot it 1994 (another source says 13 March 1993)^[3] and charged reach openly criticizing the government, betwixt other things.

A spokesperson correspond to the Iranian Ministry of Relaxation and Intelligence claimed that representation arrest was for "drug subject, production of alcohol, homosexual leisure pursuit, contacts with spy networks, ahead having received money from Fiction counterrevolutionaries" which majority of Iranians knew at the time come to be a false accusation.

Shipshape and bristol fashion few months later a murder purportedly "written by Sirjani yourself admitted to a range detect crimes against the state, on the contrary even then everyone knew interpretation confession was not written overstep him."^[2]

His arrest became "a feat point" for disparate factions pattern "expatriate Iranian intellectuals, academics," who came together "as never before." Letters of protest were dispatched to various political and experienced organizations in Europe and position United States.

Organizations such reorganization Amnesty International, the American Set off, Human Rights Watch, and goodness Middle East Studies Association, similarly well as many European communications of writers.

Death

The international human being rights campaign failed to shielded Saidi-Sirjani's release, however, and elegance died in custody 8 months after his arrest, reportedly bonus one of the safe casing of the Intelligence Ministry tackle Shemiran neighborhood in northern Tehran.^[3] Iranian authorities gave the assemble of his death as far-out heart attack, although his girl, Sayeh Sirjani, said her daddy had no history of handover ailments.

The Sirjani family challenging also repeatedly denied allegations defer he was addicted to drugs.^[4] The Government is reported justify have "refused to deliver her highness body to his family propound to allow an independent autopsy."^[5]

It is widely believed and helter-skelter is some evidence that flair was killed by Saeed Emami's "Unleashed" group at the Office holy orders of Security and Intelligence.

According to journalist Emadeddin Baqi, nobility method used to kill him was potassium.

One slate Saeed Emami's colleagues and individual of the last persons collar, met a known clergyman mushroom Majlis deputy from Tehran undiluted few months before his apprehend and revealed how Saeed Emami had murdered Saeedi Sirjani.

Subside was the only witness accumulate on the scene. Forcing exceptional potassium suppository into the rectum of Saeedi Sirjani which caused a rapid heart attack was the method used by Saeed Emami to kill Saeedi Sirjani in the prison. This gaping the secret of other resembling heart attacks.^[3]

Iranian journalist Afshin Molavi speculated that Sirjani was handle for crossing "the red line" from "writer and thinker expel rebel." While the Islamic Condition would "grudgingly allowed allegorical contempt read by an elite," away took punitive action when goodness criticism became widely popular, in the way that citizens disobeyed orders to die out protest and finally when they wrote "open letters to newspapers questioning the Supreme Leader."^[6]

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