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Kurdish civilian from Miandoab
Detention date: 26 February 2013
Charged with: Acting against national security
Sentence: Five years in prison
Current status: Released on 14 November 2017
Khezr Rasoul Morovvat, a literature expert and former activist student, was detained on 26 February 2013, after participating in a rally in support of Shinabad students in front of the Department of Education of Mahabad.
He was interrogated for three months in the detention centres of the Ministry of Intelligence in Mahabad and Orumiyeh in West Azerbaijan province.
In October 2013, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Mahabad – presided over by Judge Javadikia – sentenced Morovvat to five years in prison on charges of “acting against national security”.
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