Pouyandeh worked at the Cultural Research Institute and was working on translating a book called
Questions & Answer about Human Rights at the time of his death. Pouyandeh was not a well known writer, translator, or activist in Iran and he is essentially known for his unusual circumstance of death. Pouyandeh was last seen alive leaving his office at four o'clock in the afternoon of December 8, 1998 and still hadn't returned home three days later when his wife wrote and delivered a letter to Iran's president expressing her anguish over his disappearance. His body was discovered December 11. in the
Shahriar district of Karaj, south of
Tehran, and he appeared to have been strangled. ==See also==