Majid Sharif
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Education
Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.
Death
In November 1998, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned.[3] On November 19, 1998 he was found on the side of a road in Tehran and identified by his mother in the coroner's office six days later on November 25, 1998. The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.[4]
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References
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- ↑ Terror Database, The Serial MurdersTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Iranterror.com
- ↑ Background Briefing On The Killings in Iran Human Rights Watch 1998 Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore
- ↑ Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.135
- ↑ Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances" Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore Amnesty International 1998
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- 20th-century Iranian journalists
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- People murdered in Iran
- Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra
- 1950 births
- Sharif University of Technology alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- 20th-century Iranian translators
- Chain murders of Iran