Majid Abedinzadeh Moghaddam

He is a human rights activist. Majid Abedinzadeh was one of those held at Kahrizak prison. It is said, that the judicial apparatus in Iran has imprisoned him because of his witnessing of the incidents that happened in that prison.

<coverage-outsourcing id='12533'> Was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12534'> Was taken, along with others arrested during the post election protests, to Kahrizak prison. A fraction of the occurrences and tortures, which were either collectively or individually inflicted, has been recorded on the Kahrizak prison’s page in the IPA </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12535'> Was transferred to Evin </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12536'> Was arrested and released shortly afterwards </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12543'> Majid Abedinzadeh Moghaddam described what he had seen happen at Kahrizak prison in a video. This video was published by the Iran Human Rights Documentation center </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12537'> Was arrested by IRGC forces and taken to ward 2 A of Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12539'> He was sentenced to six years prison on charges such as, “propagating against the state” and “Assembly and collusion against national security” at branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, headed by judge Ahmadzadeh </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12538'> Was transferred to ward 8 of Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12540'> Was released on bail </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12542'> Branch 39 of the Appeal Court of Tehran reduced his sentence to three years incarceration </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='13170'> Was transferred to ward 8 of Evin prison. Kalameh reports that despite his back illness, he was deprived of medical care </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12541'> He received a summons giving him five days to introduce himself to Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12935'> According to HRANA, he turned himself in to Evin prison to begin the his 3 year sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='14005'> As reported by “Negah” was released on temporary leave </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='14663'> Unconfirmed sources reported that he was beaten by rough and menacing prisoners </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='15339'> Kalameh reported that the IRGC rejected his conditional release </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18354'> Strated a hunger strike. According to Kalameh this strike was in protest to the “meddling” of the prosecutor’s office in the manner in which the conditional release was implemented, disturbing the family with telephone calls and “insulting” the special political prisoners counselor, Mr. Haji Moradi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18757'> According to Radio Farhang, he was transferred to ward 350 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20058'> The Shargh daily published Majid Abedinzadeh Moghadam’s response to to the statements of Judge Heydarifar. This text is recorded in the Evidence section of this page. About a month later, Kalemeh reported that "recently, on the pretext of finding an unpublished article" from Majid Abedinzadeh Moghadam, in which he had defended hunger strike as a method of protest, he was transferred to somewhere outside Evin Prison, most likely Ward 1A of the IRGC prison located on east of Tehran and was beaten up. They then kept him at the same detention center for a while for the torture scars to go away and asked him to sign a paper claiming that he had fallen and that's why his body was bruised and his head was broken. Based on this report, Mr. Haj Moradi, the supervising counselor of Evin Prison, objected to Mr. Moghadam's mother and said he was not entitled to respond to the comments of Judge Heydarifar </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='24291'> He was released from prison </coverage-outsourcing>