Execution of Farzad Bazoft

Date: March 15, 1990 • Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.

Farzad Bazoft was an Iranian journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s. He worked as a freelance reporter for The Observer. He was arrested by Iraqi authorities and executed in 1990 after being convicted of spying for Israel while working in Iraq.