Reza Haghighatnejad
Reza Haghighatnejad | |
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| Born | Reza Haghighatnejad 26 June 1977 |
| Died | 17 October 2022 (aged 45) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | Iranian |
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| Years active | 2000s–2022 |
| Known for | Research on corruption in the IRGC Research on the structure of the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran |
Reza Haghighatnejad (Persian: رضا حقیقت‌نژاد; born 26 June 1977 – 17 October 2022)[1] was an Iranian journalist who worked as an analyst and political commentator with Persian-language media inside and outside Iran.
Haghighatnejad started working as a journalist at the beginning of the 2000s and worked in Iran's domestic media until 2012. After that, he left Iran and started working with Persian-language media outside Iran. Haghighatnejad worked at Radio Farda from 2019 until his death and was one of the editors of this media. Late in his life, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and died at the age of 45 at the Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany.[1][2][3]
Body abduction
On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, and at the same time as the 40th day of Mahsa Amini's death, the body of Haghighatnejad which was sent to Iran for burial in his hometown, was kidnapped at Shiraz airport by IRGC agents. The security forces have pressured the family of Haghighatnejad to immediately move his body out of Shiraz and bury it in another cemetery by four o'clock on Wednesday evening. His body was kidnapped while permission to bury his body in Iran had been issued earlier.[4][5]
After days of effort to retrieve the body from the security agents finally, on Sunday, October 30, they were informed that the IRGC buried the body in an unnamed grave far from his hometown.[6]
References
- ^ a b BBC Persian (17 October 2022). "رضا حقیقت‌نژاد روزنامه‌نگار و تحلیل‌گر سیاسی درگذشت". BBC Persian. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Radio Farda (17 October 2022). "رضا حقیقت‌نژاد، از زبده‌ترین روزنامه‌نگاران تحقیقی رادیوفردا، درگذشت". Radio Farda. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Iran International (17 October 2022). "رضا حقیقت‌نژاد، روزنامه‌نگار، در برلین درگذشت". Iran International. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Iran International (26 October 2022). "مأموران سپاه پاسداران پیکر رضا حقیقت‌نژاد را ربودند". Iran International. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ Radio Farda (26 October 2022). "مأموران سپاه پیکر رضا حقیقت‌نژاد را از فرودگاه ربودند و به مکان نامعلومی منتقل کردند". Radio Farda. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ Radio Farda (30 October 2022). "سپاه پاسداران پیکر رضا حقیقت‌نژاد را مخفیانه دور از زادگاهش به خاک سپرد". Radio Farda. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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