• <coverage-outsourcing id='6084'> Jafar Azimzadeh, Saeed Youzi, Behnam Abrahimzadeh, Shapour Ehsani Rad, and several other workers activists were arrested for their efforts to celebrate international workers day. Other than the group that was freed in the previous days, the others were, mostly, taken to ward 209 of Evin and from the over time they were transferred to other wards of this prison. Different reports of assault and battery of the prisoners and confining them to long periods of incarceration in solitary cells have been published </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='867'> Was arrested by security agents. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='866'> Went on hunger strike to protest his condition. After 15 days he was transferred to Evin Prison's Ward 350. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6085'> According to HRANA judge Salavati condemned him to 20 years in prison in a hearing that was short and took place without the presence of an attorney. This sentence was reduced to five years in the appeals court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='865'> Was reportedly beaten and severely injured in chest area, left leg and ear. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='864'> Went on furlough after 200-million-toman ($67,000) bond. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6087'> He was transferred to ward 209 in a solitary cell </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6086'> During black Thursday in Evin he was assaulted and beaten and sent to solitary confinement in ward 240 for around 15 days and, he was, then, returned to ward 350 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6093'> Began a hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='863'> Went on hunger strike after he was transferred to Ward 2 of Rajaee Shahr Prison, known as the Qoran Center. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='870'> Exiled to Ward 1 of Rajaee Shahr Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='868'> Judge Ahmadzadeh presided over his trial on charges of contacting U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmad Shaheed and the Mojahedin Khalgh from inside prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6091'> According to statement number 44 of defense committee for Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, his hearing was held with judge Ahmadzadeh presiding. In this hearing he was sentenced to 9 years and six months incarceration for charges such as “assembly and collusion to commit crimes against national security internally and abroad, propagandistic activities against the state” and accusations about drinking alcohol, gambling. It is not clear how the judge or the court believed that the current accusations, which were all made while he was serving time in prison, were brought against him </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='869'> After returning from court, he was transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison's Hall 12, where political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are held, to the section for hardcore criminals. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6092'> He ended his hunger strike, 31 days after the admission of his son Nima to Mahak hospital for cancer treatment </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7113'> Behnam Ebrahimzadeh was assaulted and beaten by Najm al-din Hosseini, the chief warden of ward 2 of Rajaei Shahr prison and was sent to solitary. The next week, Mr. Hosseini was arrested on the charge of bringing and distributing drugs in Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6088'> According to HRANA the appeals court, reduced the sentence given by judge Ahmadzadeh to seven year and 10 months and 15 days imprisonment, and 450 thousand tomans cash fine. In addition to this, charges of use of satellite dishes and playing cards were part of this worker’s case. All of these charges have been made at the time he was in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8083'> Arzhang Davoudi embarked on a hunger strike. This strike lasted for about a month and a half. Later, Ebrahim Firouzi and Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, also began a strike in solidarity with him </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7231'> Bam reported that despite, the recommendation of the doctors demanding his presence at the bedside of his child, and the submission of the necessary documents for a leave, he remains in prison. His son Nima is suffering from cancer </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7385'> He went on temporary leave after posting 600 million tomans </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7524'> The Coordinating Committee for the Creation of Workers Unions published a press release congratulating him on his temporary release and declared that it desires his unconditional freedom without bond or bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8601'> According to HRANA he returned to Rajaei Shahr prison at the end of his vacation leave. He published an audio message he condemned the freedom of the “thieves and pillagers” and the imprisonment of those who reveal the truth and said, “I am in prison, only, for my activities as a worker”. He is worried about the physical condition of his family and proclaims that he will not stop the struggle and asks activists to be his voice </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12250'> A letter from him to Ahmad Shahi was published in several news sites </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9351'> According to “no to prison, no to execution”, he was summoned to the prison security’s office and was interrogated about the publication of news about prisoners </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10217'> Behnam Ebrahimzadeh published a list of prisoners who have passed away, suspicious deaths, suicides, and the loss of limbs in Rajaei Shahr prison. This letter, addressed to the UN rapporteur on Human Rights, and published by “no to prison, no to executions” can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10715'> “Bam” reported that he has been banned from visits and that the prison authorities refused to accept the winter clothes that his family had brought him </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14508'> Wrote a letter strongly condemning the behavior of the regime and requesting that the UN’s special rapporteur on Human Rights to allowed to enter Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15167'> Was released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15134'> Amnesty International issued a statement asking for the freedom of imprisoned workers, Esmail Abdi and Behnam Ebrahimzadeh </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15138'> In a gathering of workers rights activists, on International Workers Day, in front of the Iranian Majlis(parliament), some of the protesters had signs asking for the freedom and release of Behnam Ebrahimzadeh and Esmail Abdi </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='17199'> Was arrested and after some hours released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18981'> Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, Valeh Zamani and Peyman Salem were arrested. They gathered in front of Rajaei Shahr prison in support of political prisoners </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19114'> Was released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='24580'> He was arrested while helping Kermanshah earthquake victims. He was then released on bail about a month later. His case was sent to the Dalahoo court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23822'> He was arrested in Tehran. On the day of his arrest, he found out that the Dalahoo Court has convicted him of “Propaganda Against the Regime” and “Membership in oppositional Telegram groups,” using the evidence of his aid activities to Kermanshah’s earthquake victims and sentenced him to 18 months in prison, HRANA reported. When he was in detention, he was also convicted by the Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Courts, headed by Judge Iman Afshari, of “membership in illegal groups” and “propaganda against the regime” and sentenced to six years in prison (Article 134 makes it five years) and studying three specific books. More than a month later, he was transferred from the Branch 2A of the IRGC in Evin to the Branch 4 and was released on bail two months later </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26413'> According to Hrana, his sentence was confirmed by the Branch 36 of the Appellate Court. The appellate court, without holding a session to go over the case, has published the sentence. In all, five years of the sentence will be effective. He is also forced to study and copy three specific books </coverage-outsourcing>