Hoda Saber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hoda Saber

Iranian journalist, translator and political activist who died on hunger strike

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1959

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 10-Jun-2011

Profession: journalist, essayist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Hoda Rezazadeh Saber (Persian: ??? ??????? ?????; 19 March 1959 – 10 June 2011) was an Iranian intellectual, economic scholar, journalist and social-political activist.
He served several prison terms since 2000, and died while on a hunger strike in prison protesting the death of Haleh Sahabi.
Saber played a leading role in the magazine Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was published from 1992 to 2000.Saber was devoted to social justice.
In recent years he had been working in Sistan and Baluchestan, both major drug-trafficking routes from neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Saber’s employability-training programme, aimed to help over a thousand underprivileged young people escape the poverty of their drug infested surroundings.