Asef Razmdideh

Asef Razmdideh (Persian: آصف رزم‌دیده) was an Iranian communist politician and trade unionist.

Asef Razmdideh
Razmdideh in 1979
Born
Ardabil[1]
Died1988
Iran
Cause of deathExecution
NationalityIranian
Political partyTudeh Party

He served as the general-secretary of the Consultative Committee for the creation of the General Union of Iranian Workers as of 1979,[2] and was a member of the central committee of Tudeh Party of Iran.[3]

In 1966, along with several members of Tudeh, he was arrested and sentenced to death by Pahlavi dynasty. However following international opposition from communist parties, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.[4] He remained imprisoned until 1979.[1] Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, he ran for an Assembly of Experts for Constitution seat from Tehran constituency on behalf of Tudeh.[5] In 1983, he was arrested and imprisoned in Evin Prison by the Islamic Republic government.[6] His name has been recorded as one of the victims of 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.[7]

References
  1. Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. p. 195. ISBN 0520922905.
  2. Flashes from the Trade Unions, World Federation of Trade Unions, 1979, p. 26
  3. Zabir, Sepehr (2012), The Left in Contemporary Iran (RLE Iran D), CRC Press, p. 67, ISBN 978-1-136-81263-7
  4. Mather, Yassamine (2011), "Iran's Tudeh Party: A History of Compromises and Betrayals", Journal of Socialist Theory, 39 (4): 611–627, doi:10.1080/03017605.2011.621250, S2CID 147519829
  5. Tulsiram (1981), The History of Communist Movement in Iran, Grafix, p. 162
  6. Information Bulletin, vol. 21–22, Progress Books, 1983, p. 195
  7. "Iran: Blood-soaked secrets: Why Iran's 1988 prison massacres are ongoing crimes against humanity" (PDF), Amnesty International, 2017, MDE 13/9421/2018
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