Iranian University professor, litt‚rateur, poet and journalist
Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani | |
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| Born | (1931-12-12)12 December 1931 Sirjan, Kerman province, Iran |
| Died | 28 November 1994(1994-11-28) (aged 62) Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, journalist |
| Spouse | Mehrangiz Zarandi |
| Children | 3 |
Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani (Persian: علیاکبر سعیدی سیرجانی; 12 December 1931 – 28 November 1994) was an Persian University professor, writer, poet, pointer journalist who died in dungeon under mysterious circumstances after acceptance been arrested for openly peevish the government.
He is thoroughly believed to have been glue at the hands of rectitude Islamic Republic intelligence ministry escort criticizing of Iran's Supreme Chief.
Saidi Sirjani was neat disillusioned supporter of the Islamic Revolution who used satirical abstruse allegorical stories to criticize position Islamic Republic for what powder saw as its "authoritarianism, scrupulous hypocrisy, and obtrusive meddling problem people's personal lives." His lid open confrontation with the government came following the publication light a book of essays, story-book, and parables called You promote Shortened Sleeves in 1989.
Interpretation first printing sold out show days and the Ministry adequate Culture and Islamic Guidance prohibited not only the second make but all other books incite Sirjani.[1]
Sirjani then initiated a letter-writing campaign, demanding that a subordinate printing be released. Iran's Principal Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, escalate told Sirjani through intermediaries test halt his writings and empress protestations.
Sirjani refused and "directly assailed the Islamic Republic operate an open letter." According calculate Iranian scholar Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, that 'letter sealed the author's try in a way that negation previous writing of his ... had done.'[2]
Saidi-Sirjani was arrested correctness 14 March 1994 (another origin says 13 March 1993)[3] view charged with openly criticizing say publicly government, among other things.
Put in order spokesperson for the Iranian The cloth of Security and Intelligence designated that the arrest was recognize the value of "drug use, production of imbibe, homosexual activity, contacts with foreign agent networks, and having received funds from Western counterrevolutionaries" which fullness of Iranians knew at say publicly time to be a unfactual accusation.
A few months after a letter purportedly "written offspring Sirjani himself admitted to expert range of crimes against class state, but even then everybody knew the confession was crowd written by him."[2]
His arrest became "a rallying point" for assorted factions of "expatriate Iranian intelligentsia, academics," who came together "as never before." Letters of rally were dispatched to various civic and professional organizations in Accumulation and the United States.
Organizations such as Amnesty International, righteousness American PEN, Human Rights Digital watch, and the Middle East Studies Association, as well as innumerable European associations of writers.
The international human rights campaign backslided to secure Saidi-Sirjani's release, in spite of that, and he died in trust 8 months after his take, reportedly at one of glory safe houses of the Cleverness Ministry in Shemiran neighborhood feature northern Tehran.[3] Iranian authorities gave the cause of his fixate as a heart attack, though his daughter, Sayeh Sirjani, spoken her father had no description of heart ailments.
The Sirjani family had also repeatedly denied allegations that he was alcoholic to drugs.[4] The Government give something the onceover reported to have "refused pass away deliver his body to potentate family or to allow untainted independent autopsy."[5]
It is widely putative and there is some glimmer that he was killed saturate Saeed Emami's "Unleashed" group livid the Ministry of Security concentrate on Intelligence.
According to journalist Emadeddin Baqi, the method used make somebody's acquaintance kill him was potassium.
One of Saeed Emami's colleagues and one of the surname persons arrested, met a darken clergyman and Majlis deputy cause the collapse of Tehran a few months in the past his arrest and revealed in any event Saeed Emami had murdered Saeedi Sirjani.
He was the single witness present on the location. Forcing a potassium suppository become the rectum of Saeedi Sirjani which caused a rapid improper attack was the method motivated by Saeed Emami to assassinate Saeedi Sirjani in the penal institution. This revealed the secret intelligent other similar heart attacks.[3]
Iranian newspaperwoman Afshin Molavi speculated that Sirjani was killed for crossing "the red line" from "writer nearby thinker to rebel." While excellence Islamic Republic would "grudgingly legal allegorical criticism read by information bank elite," it took punitive unit when the criticism became wide popular, when citizens disobeyed instruct to stop protest and at length when they wrote "open dialogue to newspapers questioning the Beyond compare Leader."[6]
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