Farajollah Mizani

Iranian writer and translator
Farajollah Mizani
Born1925
Tabriz, Iran
Died1988(1988-00-00) (aged 62–63)
Iran
Cause of deathExecution
NationalityIranian
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
OccupationEngineer
Political partyTudeh Party

Farajollah Mizani (Persian: فرج‌الله میزانی), also known by pseudonym and pen name Javanshir[1] (Persian: جوانشیر, lit. 'young lion'), was an Iranian communist and a senior Tudeh Party member.

Early life and education

Mizani was born in 1925 in Tabriz.[1] He studied engineering at University of Tehran.[1] Years later he was graduated with a PhD in Persian literature from a Soviet university.[1]

Career

Mizani joined Tudeh Party in 1945, while he was a university student.[1] In 1957, he fled to the Soviet Union and was exiled until 1979. While there, for some time he headed the party's clandestine radio named Peyk-e-Iran and studied at university.[1] After Iranian Revolution, he returned to Iran[1] and was a member of the party's central committee.[2] In 1983, he was arrested by the Islamic Republic government and put on trial.[3] He was among those who were killed during 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. pp. 192–3, 195. ISBN 0520922905.
  2. ^ Vahabzadeh, Peyman (2010). Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation In Iran, 1971–1979. Syracuse University Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780815651475.
  3. ^ Zabir, Sepehr (2012), The Left in Contemporary Iran (RLE Iran D), CRC Press, p. 67, ISBN 978-1-136-81263-7
Party political offices
Preceded by Second Secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran
1979–1984 		Succeeded by
Hamid Safari
Preceded by
Amanollah Qoreishi
 Secretary-in-Charge of Tehran Provincial Committee of Tudeh Party
1953–1957 		Vacant
Title next held by
Abbas Hajari


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