Iraj Mesdaghi

Iraj Mesdaghi (Persian: ایرج مصداقی; born 1960) is an Iranian writer, human rights activist, and former political prisoner. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden since 1994. He was a supporter of the PMOI in the past and now is among the critics of that organization. Mesdaghi has written various books and articles on 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran.[1]

Iraj Mesdaghi
Born(1960-10-31)October 31, 1960
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
OccupationWriter, Human rights defender
Websitehttp://irajmesdaghi.com

Biography

Mesdaghi was born in 1960 in Tehran, Iran. As a teenager, he traveled to the United States to work with the Confederation of Iranian Students to revive the student movement unit and returned to Iran after the Iranian revolution. He has been in Ghazelhasar, Evin and Gohardasht prisons for over 10 years, from 1981 to 1991, on charges of supporting the PMOI Organization.[2]

He is one of the survivors of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran. After being released from prison, he was forced to flee from Iran in 1994. In Sweden, he resumed his social and political activities. He has been working on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for many years in the Commission, and the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labor Organization, and the European Parliament. He is currently independently engaged in political activity and research.

He is also a member of the "Committee for the Observation and Use of Iranian Justice Data", headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. This leaked file contain Tehran's Judiciary data from 1978 to 2009 and was delivered to Reporters Without Borders.[3][4]

Cinematic presence

He played as main character in the film documentary Those Who Said No, directed by Nima Sarvestani. This film is about an International People's Tribunal in The Hague court of justice investigating mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s and was displayed at IDFA.[5][6]

Bibliography
  • Neither Life Nor Death (Persian: نه زیستن نه مرگ)
  • Bar Saghe Tabideh Kanaf (Persian: برساقه تابیده کنف)
  • Torture in the Name of Allah (Persian: دوزخ روی زمین)
  • violation of fundamental rights of labour in iran (Persian: نگاهی به سازمان بین‌المللی کار و نقض حقوق بنیادین کار در ایران)
  • Negahi Ba Cheshme Jan (Persian: نگاهی با چشم جان)
  • Raghse Ghoughounosha va Avaze khakestar (Persian: رقص ققنوس‌ها و آواز خاکستر)
  • United Nations and violation of Human Rights in Iran (Persian: سازمان ملل متحد و نقض حقوق بشر در ایران)

Despite publishing books, Iraj Mosadghi has published hundreds of articles and reports on human rights and disclosure against Islamic Republic policies.[7]

References
  1. "Iraj Mesdaghi". www.irajmesdaghi.com. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  2. صفحه آخر ، صدای آمریکا
  3. "Forty years of state lies: RSF unveils leaked Iranian justice file | Reporters without borders". RSF. 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  4. "Iran: Leaked justice files reveal forty years of lies". International Observatory of Human Rights. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  5. www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam, Those Who Said No | IDFA, retrieved 2019-04-24
  6. "BBC World News - Storyville Global, Those Who Said No". BBC. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  7. Iraj Mesdaghi
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