Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
Appearance
Abdollah Ramezanzadeh | |
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Kurdistan Province | |
In office 14 September 1997 – 2 January 2001 | |
President | Mohammad Khatami |
Preceded by | Mohammad Reza Rahimi |
Succeeded by | Asadollah Razani |
Personal details | |
Born | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | August 23, 1954
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
- ^ "تصویبنامه راجع به انتصاب سخنگو و رئیس شورای اطلاعرسانی دولت" (in Persian). Vekalat Online. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
External links
- Ramezanzadeh is facing trial in Iran (BBC Persian)