Nasser Zarafshan
1947
- Nationality
- Iran
- Occupation
- writer
Nasser Zarafshan (Persian: Ùاصر زراÙشاÙ; born 1946) is an Iranian writer, translator, and attorney.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Evin PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Nasser Zarafshan (Persian: Ùاصر زراÙشاÙ; born 1946) is an Iranian writer, translator, and attorney. He is known for having been arrested while acting as the legal envoy of two of the families of dissident Iranian writers who were assassinated in November 1998 in what came to be known in Iran as the "Chain Murders" or "serial murders" case. The arrest was widely condemned by human rights groups. It is reported that Zarafshan had been tremendously critical of the shortcomings in the official examination into these killings. In 2002 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and was released from prison in March 2007.
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