A
journalist and director of a political organization
critical of the Islamic Republic – the Democratic front
of Iran- Mr.Heshmatollah Tabarzadi has been released
after finishing seven years prison sentence from Evin
prison on May 25 .
The democratic United Students' Front – a member of the Democratic Front, has announced that Mr.Tabarzadi had announced that officials had given no official reasons his detention.
It is reported that Mr.Tabarzadi has been told that his other sentence by the court which is 10 years of deprivation of social rights, would start on his release.
Mr.Tabarzadi, director of the confiscated Payam Daneshjoo publication, who had been repeatedly arrested in the past, was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in July of 2003.
The 26th so called revolutionary court had sentenced Mr.Tabarzadi to 10 years prison, for founding the Democratic Front, two years for insulting the Spiritual Leader, one year for propagating against the State, one year for disturbing public opinion, and an extra 10 years punishment of social deprivation.
The appeal court shortened the sentence to 7 years on the whole.
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