Farid Azmoudeh

An officer of the Revolutionary Guard charged with cooperation with the People's Mujahedin of Iran

<coverage-outsourcing id='3091'> He was arrested in June 2011 and was sentenced to five years in prison by the Military Court of Tehran on charges of "printing the logo of the People's Mujahedin of Iran group on a t-shirt" and "espionage." </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12923'> According to Harana, an email he received in 2009, in which he was asked to print Mujahedin Khalgh's logo on T-shirts, was cited as an account for his charges. According to the report, Mr. Azmoudeh has been summoned to Revolutionary Guard's Counter Intelligence regularly for interrogations since 2010 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12922'> According to Harana, Iraj Hatami, Farid Azmoudeh, Ali Reza Farahani, and Behzad Tarahomi who were on hunger strike, were put under pressure by being transferred to other wards. Iraj Hatami has been battered by general prisoners and has been asked to break his strike. It was said that the guards were behind this attack. Harana's report mentions that a prisoner put his cigarette out on Hatami's head </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12919'> According to Harana, special units of Rajayee Shahr inspected Hall 12 and moved Farid Azmoudeh to Ward 1 in Hall 12 and Iraj Hatami to Ward 3 in Hall 12. According to the report, Ali Reza Farahani was previously moved from Ward 4 to Ward 10 in Hall 12, which political prisoners are kept </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12918'> In protest to the disregard of separation of crimes principle, he and several other prisoners went on a hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7038'> He was released on a temporary leave </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7039'> According to Hesar News, he was summoned to prison again </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10904'> In a letter to Asma Jahangir, he described the stages of his arrest and incarceration and the violation of trial procedure in his case, and emphasized his innocence and the fact that he was not allowed to hire an attorney himself, and that he was only sentenced to five years in prison because of the confessions that were taken with "force" and "under a variety of threats and torture" with the "knowledge of the judge". He added that by the order of "the Attorney General of Tehran's military", his temporary jail time was not considered in his prison sentence. He also wrote that he spent 16 months of his temporary jail time in solitary cells, and one of his charges is "espionage for the Mujahedin Khalgh Organization" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10653'> Hesar reported that he and several prisoners in Rajayi Shahr Prison condemned the sentence of Ahmad Montazeri </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11716'> He and thirteen other Rajayi Shahr prisoners released a statement in support of Saeed Shirzad's demands and encouraged the prison authorities and the Judiciary to uphold the "natural rights" of prisoners. The letter is documented in Saeed Shirzad's page in Atlas </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12027'> In a letter to Asemeh Jahangir, he and a group of nineteen prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison expressed their concern about Saeed Shirzad's conditions. The letter is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19469'> He was probably released </coverage-outsourcing>