# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manoochehr-shafaei
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:05:12.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manoochehr-shafaei"
name: "Manoochehr Shafaei"
slug: "manoochehr-shafaei"
description: "Manoochehr Shafaei is an Iranian human rights activist, journalist, founder and owner of the Azadegy magazine, founder and chairman of the board of Human Rights Defending Association for Iran, inventor and retired sabre fencer. As a fencer he won a gold and a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games. He also coached his younger sister Mahvash."
tagline: "Iranian journalist and human rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manouchehr_Shafaei%2C_2012_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1949-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مانوتشيهر شافاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoochehr_Shafaei"
    title: "Manoochehr Shafaei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manouchehr_Shafaei"
    title: "Manouchehr Shafaei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%88%DA%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "منوچهر شفایی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%88%DA%86%D9%87%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25426177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump