Arzhang Mortazawi, the Kharazmi University student, is sentenced to detention and additional punishment

Hengaw, Friday, December 29, 2023

Arzhang Mortazawi, a computer science student at Kharazmi University and one of the detainees of the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) movement, has been sentenced to one year of penal detention, a travel ban, and deprivation of social media activities by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the university activist Arzhang Mortazawi has been sentenced to one year of penal detention, two years of travel ban, and deprivation of social media activities under the charge of "propaganda against the government" by the first branch of the Karaj revolutionary court, presided over by judge Mousa Asef Alhoseini.

This student had been sentenced by the central committee of the science ministry to a four-semester suspension and relocating of his education place from Kharazmi University to Damghan University under the charge of "causing chaos and disturbance in the university" in October 2023.

Arzhang Mortazawi was taken into custody during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement on October 7, 2022, by security forces and released one month later on bail. He was transported to Karaj Central Prison on December 17 in order to implement his sentence. Subsequently, he was released on February 21, 2023, due to the "amnesty" decree.

Arzhang Mortazawi is the son of political prisoner Abdol Rasoul Mortazawi and one of the signatories to Ali Khamenie's resignation statement.