Khosrow Golsorkhi [SEP] place of death
Khosrow Golsorkhi
Khosrow Golsorkhi ()
(22 January 1944 in Rasht – 18 February 1974 in Tehran) was an Iranian journalist, poet, and communist, marxist activist in Iran during the Cold War. Hooman Majd has described him as a "Che Guevara-like figure for young Iranians in 1974."
Famous for his leftist and revolutionary poetry, Golsorkhi was convicted along with his friend, Keramat Daneshian, a director, of plotting to kidnap Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. The military court was televised
, and Khosrow Golsorkhi were sentenced to be executed while the rest of the group received lesser sentences. The same sentences were handed down in the second trial but after the final trial only Keramat Daneshian and Khosrow Golsorkhi were executed due to their ideological arguments and the others' death sentences were reduced to life in prison.
Return to Kurdistan and then exile.
After 5 years of captivity, Tayfour along with other political prisoners were released from prison a few months before the 1979 revolution in Iran. He returned to his hometown