Ahmad Daneshpour Moghaddam

The case against him and his family was one of the famous cases of Green Movement. The death sentence issued for the members of this family received a strong reaction from human rights and Green Movement activists, and Mir-Hossein Mousavi issued a statement about it. Some sources believed this collective group sentence to be a warning to protestors

<coverage-outsourcing id='812'> 18 days after the arrest of him and his close friends and relatives Keyhan Newspaper quoted judicial officials as announcing that the arrested individuals were sentenced to execution. This announcement caused a reaction by Mir Hossein Mousavi at the time it was made. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='811'> He was arrested in his residence during Ashoora in 2009 alongside his mother, Motahareh (Simin) Bahrami Haghighi, father, Mohsen Daneshpoour Moghadam, and two other close relatives, Reyhane Haj Ebrahim Dabagh and Hadi Ghaemi. He was charged with "Enmity against God through supporting the People's Mujaheddin of Iran" and "Acting against national security". </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='814'> It was reported that he was sentenced to execution on the charge of "Enmity against God through relations with the People's Mujaheddin of Iran". He was not appointed an attorney for his initial trial session and his family had not met with any attorneys either. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='813'> According to his brother, it was reported that Dr.Mohammad Sharif had been able to gain the right to represent his mother Motahareh Bahrami, his wife Reyhane Haj Ebrahim Dabagh and their family friend Hadi Ghaemi. But despite this attorney's efforts the defendant and his father, Mohsen Daneshpour Moghadam, were not allowed to sign the legal contract from Dr.Sharif. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='816'> Meisam Daneshpour Moghadam, son of Motahareh Bahrami and Mohsen Daneshpour Moghadam,stated in an interview: > The Appeals Court has made a ruling, but this ruling has not been relayed to us or my father and brother. He was not aware of the sentences that had been issued and continued : > They informed us that the sentence had been relayed to their chosen attorneys, but no matter how hard we tried we were not able to get in touch with these attorneys; They will not identify my brother and father's attorneys to us. Meisam Daneshpour explained that even his father and brother do not know their attorneys. He explained : > These attorneys were present in court on the day of the trial. They simply asked my family for their first and last names, there was no more dialogue besides that. My family doesn't even know the names of their attorneys. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='815'> It was reported that according to the Tehran Attorney General, Mr.Jafar Dolat Abadi, the death sentence for Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpour (Father and son) was upheld and that they had requested clemency. The death sentences for the three other individuals in the case (Motahareh Bahrami Haghighi, Reyhane Haj Ebrahim Dabagh, and Hadi Ghaemi) were reduced to time in prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='817'> An interview was published in which it was said that he was subjected to severe physical beatings in front of his father. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8680'> 32 political prisoners in Ward 350 wrote a letter expressing their concern for his health </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8679'> Harana reported that he and his father are still under the death sentence. According to this report, Mr. Hajiloo the representative of the prosecution told his brother that: > Your father and brother's case is missing </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10226'> The nine remaining prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin Prison objected to the ward's isolated environment and the transfer of political prisoners. The letter states that Ward 350 has not had any new entry since the spring of 2014, for a long time there have been only 9 prisoners in this Ward, and "are experiencing conditions more difficult than solitary". Constant hunger strikes of political prisoners in other wards and prisons indicate the futility of separating political prisoners, and separating political prisoners from each other is in fact an "indirect torture". The signatories are: Akbar Amini, Yashar Darolshafa, Ahmad Daneshpour, Mohsen Daneshpour, Ali Zahed, Abdolfattah Soltani, Hassan Sisakhti, Sohail Arabi, and Mohammad Sedigh Kaboudvand. The letter was published by Harana, and it is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of Ward 350's page in Atlas </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16059'> HRANA reported that a medical inquiry will take place in two days for Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpour Moghadam. HRANA confirmed, once more, in this report, that the judiciary under the pretext that ‘the file has been lost,’ has refused to issue a final verdict for these two who have been, in limbo, under a sentence of execution, since 2009 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20030'> With Arash Sadeghi’s exile to Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj and the transfer of the other political prisoner of ward 350 to other wards in Evin prison, ward 350 of Evin prison was closed. According to reports Soheil Arabi was transferred to ward 8, but most of the political prisoner that remained in ward 350 were transferred to ward 4. Ward 4 is devoid of rooms, it has no cooking equipment, the principle of separating prisoners according to their charges does not exist. Even though, it is claimed that the reason for this transfer was the publication of Esmail Abadi, Arash Sadeghi and Soheil Arabi’s pictures in Evin’s ward 350, but according to the previous statements of the prison authorities, it is possible that the closing of this ward, like the collective transfer of political prisoners of Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj that took place two months before, was the product of prior planning. According to IPA, Abdolfatah Soltani, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mohsen Daneshpour, Ahmad Daneshpour, Hasan Sisakhti and Ali Zahed were also transferred </coverage-outsourcing>