Ezzatollah Sahabi (Born 1930 in Tehran, Iran) is a Persian politician, former minister and former Parliament member. He studied Mechanical engineering at Tehran University. His father, Yadollah Sahabi was a very influential figure in 1978 revolution. He is famous for his political-economical social analysis, and also for the many years of being prisoned in the both pre-revolution and post-revolution eras. Map of Iran and surrounding lands, showing location of Tehran The towering Alborz mountains rising above modern Elahiyeh district and its green neighborhoods. ... The Persians of Iran (officially named Persia by West until 1935 while still referred to as Persia by some) are an Iranian people who speak Persian (locally named Fârsi by native speakers) and often refer to themselves as ethnic Iranians as well. ... The University of Tehran (دانشگاه تهران in Persian), also known as Tehran University, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
Sahabi was managing editor of the now-banned journal Iran-e Farda (The Iran of Tomorrow). He was also a participant in Iran after election conference held in Berlin. Berlin is the capital city and a single state of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
Nowadays he is well known as the leader of the Iran's nationalist-religious political alliance.
Sahabi was arrested on April 22, 2000 following his participation in an academic and cultural conference held at the Heinrich Böll Institute in Berlin on April 7-9 entitled "Iran after the elections," at which political and social reform in Iran were publicly debated.
Sahabi was tried by Tehran's Revolutionary Court, and on January 13, 2001 it was announced that he had been convicted and sentenced on charges of acting against national security and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic regime for his participation at the Berlin conference.
Haqiqatjou also claimed that another dissident journalist EzzatollahSahabi had been subjected to some sort of psychological torture as the result of which, she said, he was not able to recognize his own family members at their visit to the prison Saturday.
Sahabi, 75, and Afshari were sentenced last month to four and five years in prison respectively for their part in a Berlin conference on political change in Iran.
In a recent letter to President Mohammad Khatami that was published in several newspapers on Sunday, Yadollah Sahabi, the father f EzzatollahSahabi complained of prison conditions and asked for a dispatch of a group to the country's jails.
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