“Berkeley Lecture Series” Presents:
A Talk by Iraj Mesdaghi
Topic: “The Opposition and the 2013 Iranian Presidential Election”
Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 20 Barrows Hall
Iraj Mesdaghi began his political life in the United States with the Confederation of Iranian Students and returned to Iran during the 1979 anti-monarchist revolution.
In 1981, he was arrested because of his activities with the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran and spent the next decade in prison. He is currently an independent activist and researcher working on Human Rights, Workers’ Rights and prison issues.
Iraj Mesdaghi has written a four volume book titled “Neither Life nor Death”. This work is a compilation of reports and memories of life in the Islamic Republic’s jails. He has also published a collection of prison songs “ BAR SAGEHI-E TABIEDAYE KANAF” about the massacres of 1988. His latest book “Hell on Earth”, is about prisons of the Islamic Republic. In addition, Iraj Mesdaghi has written extensively on human rights violations of the Islamic Republic on various Persian Internet sites.