Vida Hajebi Tabrizi, Iranian political activist and writer, Died at 81

  Activist, Writer

Vida Hajebi was born in 1936 and died in 2017.

She was an Iranian social justice activist and writer.

Vida Hajebi Tabrizi was arrested in July 1972 in Tehran, and imprisoned for 6 year.

Tabrizi wrote several books.

Tabrizi’s book “Daad va Bidaad” – in Persian – was about women in prisons in Iran.

Tabrizi was a prisoner of conscience for seven years and In 1978 she named as the “Prisoner of the Year ” by Amnesty International.

Vida died in Paris.

Vida Hajebi Tabrizi passed away at 81 years old.