Hoda Saber

Iranian journalist

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.