• <coverage-outsourcing id='6970'> He was arrested. he was later sentenced to 15 years in prison on the charges of "public disturbance (participation in assemblies in support of Kubani), acts against the national security, and cooperation with PKK. He was also sentenced to three years in prison on the charge of "crossing the border illegally, forgery of citizenship identification cards, and illegal residency in Iran". This verdict of Urmia Revolutionary Court was later confirmed in appeal </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11088'> Hassan Rastegary Majd is still on hunger strike in solitary confinement. According to Harana, prison authorities have refused to provide him asthma inhalers. According to this report, Turkish embassy authorities have announced that they are following his case and have contacted Iranian judicial authorities several times so far </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='4956'> It was reported that he is being held in Ward 13(or 20) of Urmia Central Prison, alongside regular inmates </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6971'> The ward representative (Hossein Gharebaghi), who was trying to give away his bed to another prisoner, met with his resistance. But several general prisoners assaulted and battered him and he was transferred to solitary confinements for five days. During these five days, again with the permission and coordination of prison authorities (ward representative and the prison warden) these prisoners went to his solitary confinement on several occasions and assaulted him. These incidents caused an uproar among political prisoners in different wards </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8297'> According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, after his objection to "insult and humiliation of Kurd political prisoners" by some of the general population prisoners, the ward rep, Hossein Gharebaghi, went to psychiatric ward along with some prison guards and severely battered Hassan Rastegari Majd in front of other prisoners. While two of his fingers were broken during this assault, he was transferred to solitary confinements instead of medical treatment. This incident led to physical altercations between political prisoners of other wards and prisoners of psychiatric ward who were involved in his battery </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6973'> Harana published a new report about his case </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7527'> After he insisted on his demand for the application of crime separation and being moved to the political prisoners' ward, he was battered by two prison guards and some of his teeth were broken. According to Harana, this political prisoner has also suffered a fracture of a middle finger and his eyesight is deteriorating and requires transfer to medical centers outside of prison, which has been denied so far </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6972'> His interrogation was held with his transfer to the court. After his transfer to solitary confinement and the events that followed, and due to a lawsuit brought against him by Hossein Gharebaghi, the branch 6 interrogation office of Urmia Revolutionary Court opened a new case for him </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8296'> Due to a lawsuit brought against him by the head of psychiatric ward 2 of Urmia Central Prison, he was prosecuted by the branch 11 of Urmia court on the charges of "insulting the supreme leader" and "causing disturbance in prison". This lawsuit was regarding the events in June </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8298'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that he was kept in ward 3 and 4 in his first year in prison, and was transferred to psychiatric ward after that </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9244'> Harana reported that Judge Shaikhloo has sentenced him to one more year in prison on the charge of "propaganda against the regime". According to this report, the case investigator had previously acquitted him of this charge, but with the prosecutor's objection the case was opened again </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10660'> He went on hunger strike. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, his hunger strike is in protest to "new false charges" of "assault and disturbance in prison" brought against him in branches 104 and 107 of Urmia 2nd criminal court and also receiving a sentence of one year in prison for "propaganda against the regime" and for insisting on his appeal request for the sentence of 18 years in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10661'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that he is detained in ward 12 of Urmia Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10723'> He was transferred to solitary confinement. According to Harana, prison authorities have told him that "they can help with the three cases brought up against him in prison, but they cannot do anything for his original convistion" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12141'> Hassan Rastegari Majd was sentenced on the charge of “disturbing the prison order”, brought against him by Hossein Gharabaghi, a warden of one of the wards of Urmia prison, in branch 104 of the criminal court 2 of Urmia with Ali Nobakht as prosecutor, to 20 lashes of the whip and three months suspended prison sentence. The court took place during the time he was striking, (begun on Dec.18th). The lashing sentence for this 51 year old political prisoner was implemented on June, 2017 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11506'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that according to an informed source, he is still being kept in solitary confinements of Urmia prison after twenty-five days on hunger strike. The source said that he is in bad conditions due to Asthma and not receiving inhalers. He is denied family visitation and phone calls. He is given two dirty covers in the solitary </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11544'> Human Rights Activists in Iran group issued a statement inviting "the judicial authorities to act independently from security institutions" and while emphasizing the need to transfer prisoners on hunger strike - particularly Arash Sadeghi - to medical centers, they asked for opening the door to negotiation with the prisoners on strike, namely Ali Shariati, Saeed Shariati, Hassan Rastegari, Nezar Zaka, Mohammad Reza Nekounam, and Mehdi Koukhian </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11665'> According to Harana, Hassan Rastegari Majd, is still on hunger strike. According to the report, since last week, the prison authorities do not give him tea and he has to use the unsanitized water in his solitary cell's bathroom. Also, the prison doctor does not treat him well </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11966'> Asma Jahangir, special human rights rapporteur of the United Nations for Iran, along with Michael Forst, special rapporteur for human rights defenders, and Roland Adjovi, the special rapporteur to the UN for arbitrary arrests, in a statement, expressed concern regarding the long hunger strike, of Arash Sadeghi, Ali Shariati, Saeed Shirazi, Mohammad Reza Nekounam, Hassan Rastegari Majd, and Nizar Zakka, and warned that it may lead to death. These three United Nations special rapporteurs, while raising alarm over the dire condition of some of the political and ideological prisoners on hunger strike in Iran, asked the Iranian government for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners arrested arbitrarily. According to Zamaneh, this statement underlined the special concern for those prisoners who were arrested because of peaceful efforts to defend and expand human rights in Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15903'> Hassan Rastegari Majd was put on trial, one more time, at branch 107 of the criminal court of Urmia, headed by Ali Nobakht, on charges of “disturbing the prison order” and was condemned to 50 lashes of the whip and six months suspended term </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15902'> According the Kurdistan Human Rights Network the whipping sentence of Hassan Rastegari Majd was implemented, this 51 year old political prisoner was sentenced to three months incarceration and 20 lashes of the whip, last year, on the charge of “disturbing the prison order”. In connection to this, at another court, headed by the same judge, was sentenced to six months prison and 50 lashes of the whip </coverage-outsourcing>