Majid Asadi

He is graduated with a degree in Economics from Allameh University and was arrested many times.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='1620'> He was arrested and spend 87 days in solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1622'> His four year sentence was relayed to him. Despite his requesting his case be reviewed in Appeals Court and without his knowledge of the final sentence, he was summoned to prison to begin his incarceration </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1623'> He was transferred to Evin Prison to begin his sentence. He is incarcerated in Ward 350 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1625'> He began a two-week long hunger strike in protest of the treatment received by two of Ward 350's political prisoners while they were in being tried in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1624'> He spoke out against the attack on Ward 350 by security forces and the IRIB's reporting of this incident alongside a group of other prisoners in Ward 350. They started a hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1626'> His release was previously scheduled for August 2015, but it is reported that the enactment of Clause 134 of the new penal code has caused this political prisoner to be freed earlier </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13334'> Was arrested at his family home in Karaj. According to HRANA security forces entered the home by force, where his father was also attacked and abused. He was transferred to Evin. There may be a few days inaccuracy in the date of his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14490'> HRANA reported that he suffers from “acute spinal and intestinal stress” and is now under worse conditions. According to this report the crime he is accused of, and the reason for his arrest, are still not clear </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14541'> HRANA reported that after enduring 50 days in solitary confinement he was transferred to multi-prisoner cells in ward 209 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15144'> HRANA Reported that he is still incarcerated in ward 209, his arrest warrant has not been renewed,security forces treated him abusively during his arrest, in front of his family.They cursed his father and have yet to return the family’s belongings including telephones and his father’s checkbook. Also, his backache has become worse </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15756'> Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, Majid Assadi, Payam Shakiba were transferred from Evin ward 209 to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. After quarantine they were transferred to non-political wards. According to HRANA the arrest warrant for Majid Assadi and Payam Shakiba has not been renewed and they are being held illegally </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19450'> After the collective transfer of the political and ideological/religious prisoners of Rajaei Shahr prison to a new ward, a number of them began a hunger strike.This widespread hunger strike led to the prison guards and staff’s mistreatment of prisoners’ families, threatening of prisoners, putting prisoners in solitary confinement and withholding medical treatment and medicines. The collective protest was met with the media reaction of the judiciary, and the support of human rights organizations and some of the civil and political activists. Because some of the prisoner terminated their strike sooner and some of them were, also, transferred to solitary cells, the list of names changed during the period of the hunger strike, but in general, the names of prisoners who partook in the hunger strike, whose names have been confirmed by verified lists, are as follows: Majid Asadi, Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Shirzad, Saeed Masouri, Shahin Zoghitabar, Reza Akbari Monfared, Abolghasem Fouladvand, Hasan Sadeghi, Reza Shahabi, Mohammad Nazari, Payam Shakiba, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, Mohammal Ali Mansouri, Ebrahim Firouzi, Amir Ghaziani, Vahid Sayad Nasiri, Hamid Babaei, Zanyar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, Houshang Rezaei and Saeed Pourheydar. Among them Saeed Shirzad, Reza Shahabi, and Mohammad Nazari’s hunger strike lasted longer than 50 days.The last two, had continued their hunger strike in protest to the situation of their own cases </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19724'> Arash Sadeghi, Saeed Shirazi, and Saeed Masouri wrote a letter from Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj to the international human rights organizations, describing the condition of Majid Asadi, stressing that he “suspects having intestinal cancer” and “has lost eight kilos of weight during the past two weeks” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19776'> His mother told the International Campaign for Human Rights, that he was tried, at branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, on the charges of “assembly & collusion in order to act against national security” & “propagating against the state” and despite her son’s maladies, they will neither release him on bail, nor will they allow him to go on medical leave, nor will they transfer him to a hospital </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20124'> HًRANA reported that Majid Asadi was charged with “gathering and colluding for acting against national security "and" propaganda against the regime "and sentenced to six years imprisonment and two years of exile, and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi and the Payam Shakiba were charged with these two charges and possibly another one and for them sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment and two years of exile. Based on this report, the sentence was issued by Judge Ahmadzadeh at Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court. The sources say, "The court was completely a show trial, and the representative of the Ministry of Intelligence had turned the courtroom into an interrogation room." It is alleged that the Ministry of Intelligence claims that the charges against the three are based on "relations with People’s Mojahedin of Iran." Atlas, with the assumption of the application of Article 134, has registered five years in prison for each of the three, in the statistical section </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20499'> Radio Zamaneh reported that after taking images in the hospital, doctors found that there was a tumor in Majid Asadi’s liver. Despite this situation and his need for re-imaging and follow-up tests, Rajayishahr prison authorities prevent him from moving to a hospital </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23164'> HRANA reported that Tehran Appeals Court confirmed his initial verdict </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='25045'> His brother, Mohsen Asadi, was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>