Iraj Mesdaghi

He is one of the survivors of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran. After being released from prison, he was forced to flee from Iran in 1994. In Sweden, he resumed his social and political activities. He has been working on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for many years in the Commission, and the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labor Organization, and the European Parliament. He is currently independently engaged in political activity and research.

He played as main character in the film documentary Those Who Said No, directed by Nima Sarvestani. This film is about an International People's Tribunal in The Hague court of justice investigating mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s and was displayed at IDFA.

He is also a member of the "Committee for the Observation and Use of Iranian Justice Data", headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. This leaked file contain Tehran's Judiciary data from 1978 to 2009 and was delivered to Reporters Without Borders.

Iraj Mesdaghi (Persian: ایرج مصداقی; born 1960) is an Iranian writer, human rights activist, and former political prisoner. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden since 1994. He was a supporter of the PMOI in the past and now is among the critics of that organization. Mesdaghi has written various books and articles on 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran.

Mesdaghi was born in 1960 in Tehran, Iran. As a teenager, he traveled to the United States to work with the Confederation of Iranian Students to revive the student movement unit and returned to Iran after the Iranian revolution. He has been in Ghazelhasar, Evin and Gohardasht prisons for over 10 years, from 1981 to 1991, on charges of supporting the PMOI Organization.