# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nasser-zarafshan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:49:05.223Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nasser-zarafshan"
name: "Nasser Zarafshan"
slug: "nasser-zarafshan"
description: "Nasser Zarafshan is an Iranian writer, translator, and attorney. He is known for having been arrested while acting as the legal envoy of two of the families of dissident Iranian writers who were assassinated in November 1998 in what came to be known in Iran as the \"Chain Murders\" or \"serial murders\" case. The arrest was widely condemned by human rights groups. It is reported that Zarafshan had been tremendously critical of the shortcomings in the official examination into these killings. In 2002 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and was released from prison in March 2007."
tagline: "Iranian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/18th_Birthday_of_Persian_Wikipedia_53.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-02-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.99
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.016236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ناسير زارافشان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nasser Zarafshan"
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    title: "ناصر زرافشان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_Zarafshan"
    title: "Nasser Zarafshan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%A8_%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%AF%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1"
    title: "ᱱᱟᱥᱮᱨ ᱡᱟᱨᱟᱯᱷᱥᱟᱱ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_Zarafshan"
    title: "Nasser Zarafshan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump