A student from Kharazmi University, previously detained during last year’s nationwide protests, has been sentenced to imprisonment and deprivation of certain social rights by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Karaj. On Tuesday, December 26, human rights and news sources reported that Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Alborz Province sentenced Arzhang Mortazavi, the son of political prisoner Abdolrasoul Mortazavi, to one year of imprisonment, a two-year travel ban, and a ban on using social networks.
According to HRANA, the news agency of human rights activists in Iran, Judge Mousa Asaf-al-Hosseini of Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Karaj convicted Mortazavi for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” Mortazavi was initially arrested on October 6 by the Islamic Republic’s intelligence forces in Karaj and was temporarily released on bail on November 5.
He was arrested again on December 17 last year and remained in Karaj’s central prison until February 1, when he was released during a mass pardon of prisoners. Abdolrasoul Mortazavi, a political prisoner and one of the signatories calling for the resignation of Ali Khamenei, stated through a message read by another of his children that their release was the result of their resistance, which led to the Islamic Republic’s retreat.