Heshmat Tabarzadi
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi ( fa, حشمت‌الله طبرزدی; born March 21, 1959) is an Iranian democratic activist. Tabarzadi has been arrested several times on charges related to his political activities, most recently in December 2009. In October 2010, a court sentenced him to nine additional years in jail and 74 lashes, a sentence that was reduced to eight years on appeal. Political activities Tabarzadi served as the leader of the banned opposition group, the Democratic Front of Iran. Tabarzadi was viewed by the government as one of the leaders of the student protests of July 9, 1999. He was arrested and spent nine years in Evin Prison, including two in solitary confinement, for his activities as a student leader. Following the December 7, 2009 Student Day protests in Iran, Tabarzadi published an opinion piece in the ''Wall Street Journal'', writing, "One thing is certain: Dec. 7 proved that the movement for a free, democratic Iran is robust and only growing in strengt ...
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