Abdollah Ramezanzadeh

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

Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
Spokesperson of the Government of Iran
In office
19 December 2001[1] – 3 August 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byAta'ollah Mohajerani
Succeeded byGholam Hossein Elham
Governor of 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
Bijar, Iran
Political partyIslamic Iran Participation Front
ChildrenMohammad, Ahmad
Alma materKatholieke Universiteit Leuven

An ethnic Kurdish, he is the former spokesman and secretary of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the presidency of Muhammad Khatami.

Ramezanzadeh is an assistant professor in faculty of Law and Political Science of University of Tehran, and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front. He was the governor of the Kurdistan Province of Iran from 1997 to 2001.

In 1996, Ramezanzadeh got his PhD from 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.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Mohsen Mirdamadi		 Deputy Secretary-General of Islamic Iran Participation Front
2006–present		 Incumbent
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