Abdollah Ramezanzadeh

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Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
Kurdistan Province
In office
14 September 1997 – 2 January 2001
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMohammad Reza Rahimi
Succeeded byAsadollah Razani
Personal details
Born (1954-08-23) August 23, 1954 (age 69)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Abdollah Ramezanzadeh (Persian: عبدالله رمضان‌زاده) is an Iranian academic, writer and politician.

An ethnic

Muhammad Khatami
.

Ramezanzadeh is an

Kurdistan Province
of Iran from 1997 to 2001.

In 1996, Ramezanzadeh got his

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
. His thesis entitles "Internal and international dynamics of ethnic conflict: the case of Iran".

Arrest

Ramezanzadeh was arrested a few hours after the 2009 disputed presidential election. Shortly before his arrest, Ramezanzadeh released a historic speech posted on the opposition web sites and distributed throughout Iran and all over the world. He was in solitary confinement for 4 months and sentenced to 6 years jail. He is among the Iranian activists for the ethnic groups rights and the head of the Iranian Kurdish Reformists.

References

  1. ^ "تصویب‌نامه راجع به انتصاب سخنگو و رئیس شورای اطلاع‌رسانی دولت" (in Persian). Vekalat Online. Retrieved 13 September 2017.

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Party political offices
Preceded by Deputy Secretary-General of Islamic Iran Participation Front
2006–present
Incumbent