Payvand.com - Iran's writers' associations will be paying homage to Mohammad
Mokhtari and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, on the 11th anniversary of death of these
writers, by holding a gathering on Friday December 4th at Emamzadeh Taher
cemetery at Mehrshahr in Karaj. (see
announcement in Persian)
The two writers were killed 11 years ago in what has been dubbed as "serial
murders" by Iran's Intelligence Ministry agents as part of a plot to eliminate
intellectuals and political personalities. On November 22nd 1998,
Darioush and Parvaneh Forouhar were brutally murdered in their home by agents of
the Ministry of Information. While the Iranian society was still chocked by the
news of this abject crime, two members of Iran's writers' associations, Mohammad
Mokhtari and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh disappeared and were found dead on
December 3rd and December 10t, 1998, respectively.
While these criminal acts and the people behind
them were exposed by President Khatami's administration, and while some of the
agents were tried in court, no one has been punished for them. Saeed Emami, who
was identified as the mastermind of the operation, reportedly committed suicide
while being held at a prison in Tehran thus burying many of the secrets of the
operation.
Families meanwhile continue to demand justice
(see Justice Denied:
Report to the Nation)
"We stand resolute in our demand to
know the whole truth about these crimes against humanity and to have a
competent court investigate them. These crimes are still an open wound
in the collective conscience of the Iranian society. And each one of us
feels responsible to press for justice." Forouhar, Mokhtari, and
Pouyandeh families (2008)
file photo from December 2003 gathering
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