• <coverage-outsourcing id='12819'> He was arrested after being summoned to the special court of the clergy. It is not clear, on what legal citations he was summoned to this court. According to his own writing during his arrest he was incarcerated in cell 129 of Evin prison’s ward 209 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12820'> Was released upon posting a 20 million Toman bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12821'> Arrested on charges of “acting against national security” and “provoking public opinion”. This time, he was incarcerated in cell 92 of ward 209 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12822'> Was released on bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12833'> He was released on bail after several hours of arrest in the basement of the prosecutor’s headquarters for the charge of “Insulting Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12823'> Again, he was arrested. It has been said that the arrest is connected to the ascent of Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani to the leadership of the Assembly of Experts. According to a text that he wrote, he was incarcerated in solitary cell 83 of ward 240 and after a period he was transferred to ward 209. The last five days he spent in ward 350 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12824'> Was released upon posting bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12825'> Was arrested. According to his wife, he was severely abused and beaten. Initially, he was incarcerated cells 118 and 52 of ward 209 of Evin prison. Later, he was taken to ward 350 and then again returned to cell 113 of ward 209 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12830'> Mehdi Khazali was condemned to 14 years incarceration, 24 years of exile, and 90 lashes of the whip by judge Pirabbasi </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12826'> His wife and daughter were, also, arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12827'> Was released from prison on bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12834'> The Court of Appeals reduced his sentence to 15 and a half years exile, five and half years prison and a cash fine </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12828'> Was arrested in a meeting of the Saraye Ahl Ghalam (The House of Fellows of the Pen) along with tens of others. Several of those arrested in this meeting were later sentenced to prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12829'> Was released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12831'> According to Deutsche Welle, he was arrested while on a trip to the north of Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12832'> According to Deutsche Welle, he was released because the court doctor had assessed that “his health was in a critical condition” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12835'> Was arrested. Nedaye Sabz Azadi (Irangreenvoice.com) The next day, Radio Zamaneh, quoting HRANA, reported that he was transferred to ward 350 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12948'> The Islamic Medical Society of Iran wrote a statement demanding his freedom </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12939'> Mehdi Karoubi’s family published a statement asking Mehdi Khazali to end his hunger strike. According to Saham News, they reported Mehdi Karoubi’s regret “that the children of this nation have to take to this method to demand their most basic rights” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12964'> His lawyer, Mostafa Turk Hamadani, while claiming to have no information regarding his client, told Ensaf News that the rearrest of “Mehdi Khazali, took place when he was serving his sentence and had come home on leave which had been allowed him by the judge who presided over his sentencing </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13118'> Amad news reported that Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, while expressing his concern about the hunger strike and wishing him good health wrote a message, “may God save you for Islam and Muslims because you are the founder of a new foundation in Islam </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13119'> Kalameh reported that Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, in a visit with their children expressed their happiness at Issa Saharkhiz’ ending of his hunger strike and expressed their hope in Mehdi Khazali also ending his strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13108'> Mostafa Turk Hamadani told ISNA, “The warrant for release of Khazali was issued, today, with the presence of the head warden of the prison at the Talaghani Hospital”. He added, “With the presence of the head warden of Evin an IV was attached to Mehdi Khazali and starting his cure” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18372'> Was arrested again. According to his lawyer he has started a hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18772'> Mostafa Turk Hamadani told Ensaf News that he believes that the six month sentence of Mehdi Khazali has been completed, because when he was outside of the prison, it did not count as a halt of the sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18563'> Saham News reports that Mehdi Karoubi’s family wrote a letter expressing their concern for the political prisoners on hunger strike at Rajaee Shahr prison, including Mehdi Khazali, Reza Shahabi, and demanded the “ruling authorities” to respect the rights of those prisoners </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18536'> Kalameh reproted that Ayatollah Sanei, in a telephone conversation with Mr. Khazali’s family, asked him to end his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18544'> Kalameh reported that eyewitnesses have seen Mehdi Khazali screaming that, “The Larijanis plan to kill him”. Kalameh published picture revealing the struggle between Mr. Khazali and agents. This picture can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18616'> The International Campaign For Human Rights, quoting an informed source, wrote that Mehdi Khazali has been banned from access to telephone or visits, he is on hunger strike, refuses remedy until he sees his family </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18949'> According to Mizan News, the chief prosecutor of Tehran said that Mehdi Khazali has sends the ‘fake news’ to Voice of America through a woman named, “Z.R.”,this woman was arrested on this day, Mr. Khazali has broken his hunger strike several times, until now, he has not suffered from an heart attack, and his current arrest is independent of old cases and new charges have been made against him </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19146'> Journalists without Borders, naming, Soheil Arabi, Ehsan Mazandarani and Mehdi Khazali, expressed concern about the conditions of incarcerated journalists and citizen journalists </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19165'> Was released from Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19521'> Was arrested again. According to Radio Farda, he began his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>