Education
University of Tehran.
University of Tehran.
He was most likely murdered during the Chain murders of Iran in 1998. Pouyandeh worked at the Cultural Research Institute and was working on translating a book called Questions & Answer about Human Rights at the time of his death. Pouyandeh was not a well known writer, translator, or activist in Iran and he is essentially known for his unusual circumstance of death.
His body was discovered December 11. in the Shahriar district of Karaj, south of Tehran, and he appeared to have been strangled.
He was a member of the Iranian Writers Association, a group that had been long banned in Iran due to their objection to censorship and encouraged freedom of expression.