• <coverage-outsourcing id='13299'> Kobra and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi who were planning to go to camp Ashraf to see members of their family, were arrested in Marivan and were arrested for 45 days. But the court judge didn’t deem family visits as enough evidence for the charges that were given them and issued them a warrant of termination of pursuit and investigation. It has been said, the picture albums that fell into the hand of the security agents, had pictures of other members of this family with their children in Iraq, with the security agents investigations and the help of judge Hadad, this led to years of imprisonment for the families of Banazadeh and Amirkhizi </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13306'> Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, in his interview with Rooz about his 23 months incarceration, starting in 2009, in Evin prison’s ward 209, de described the behavior of the interrogator as such, “there was a young man in 209 who was one of the interrogators. He cursed in such a way that I’d never heard before in my entire life. I was a teacher, and I’d seen all kinds of people in the bazaar, but never someone with a foul mouth this dirty, never! And they call themselves soldiers of the Mahdi (Imam Zaman). The Mahdi would cringe in shame at such behavior </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13300'> He was arrested on the charge of “connection with the MEK”. It is said that he is charged because of his helping of political prisoners. His, sister, Kobra Banazadeh Amirkhizi, was, also, arrested on January, 2009, on similar charges. Several years after his release from prison, in an interview with Rooz, said that his financial situation is not such that he could cover the costs of the political prisoners’ families and the security agents, also, despite having reviewed all of his financial accounts, found no evidence for the charges his faces, he considered it his duty to visit the political prisoners families as well as the families of those who had lost their lives to execution </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13296'> Judge Salavati condemned him to five years incarceration and exile in Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj. Security forces kept him in a solitary cell for months after his hearing </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13298'> According to reports, some of the prison guards of Rajaei Shahr prison took him to prison clothing him in dirty prison uniform and in leg and hand cuffs. It has been said that, on the way back, they took off all his clothes and kept, this aging prisoner, in nude </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13290'> HRANA reported that Saeid Masouri, Saleh Kohandel, Naseh Yousefi, Khaled Hardani, Mohammadali Mansouri, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhaziri, Hamidreza Borhani, Rasoul Bodaghi and Misagh Yazdannezhad began hunger strikes in protest of the conditions in the prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13307'> According to reports, while serving his term in prison, he received a letter of inability-to-endure his sentence, from a certified court doctor, but the security organizations prevented his release </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13276'> Following the transfer of Rasoul Bodaghi and Shahrokh Zamani to solitary confinement due to their complaints regarding the shuttering of the library in Ward 12 and subsequent hunger strike, Saeid Masouri, Saleh Kohandel, Naseh Yousefi, Khaled Hardani, Mohammadali Mansouri, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhaziri, Hamidreza Borhani, and Misagh Yazdannezhad began hunger strikes </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13285'> After the assault on Ward 350 (The Black Friday of Ward 350), Rassoul Badaghi, Hamidreza Borhani, Mohammad Bannazadeh Amirkhizi, Khaled Hardani, Afshin Heiratian, Batirshah Mohammadof, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Saleh Kohandel, Saeed Massouri, Mohammad Ali Mansouri, Missagh Yazdannejad, and Nasseh Yousefi went on hunger strike in support of Ward 350 prisoners and in sympathy with their families </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13308'> Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, in an interview with Rooz, says that after the annulment of Article 186, keeping in mind that according to Iranian law after the annulment of an article of the law, the prisoners who were sentenced according to this law have to be released, and has he has requested his release. But the deputy prosecutor Mr. Khodabakhshi told him, “we have no use for these laws, we have our own laws that we implement”. He stresses, “God is my witness that he said, these laws are for law schools,students and professors to teach and discuss. It has no use for us, we have our own laws” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13301'> A few days after his release, in an interview with Rooz, he said, that he was moved from the small prison to the big prison. He described the condition of political prisoners during the attack on ward 350 and the execution of other prisoners maintaining that, throughout his incarceration, he didn’t stay silent, either </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13305'> HRANA reports Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi was arrested at his own home. The following day, Asadollah Hadi was arrested at work </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15757'> 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='19461'> 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='18294'> An informed source told Iran Prison Atlas that after the political prisoners were transferred from Hall 14 Ward 4 to Hall 10 of the same ward and they refused to eat in response, some continued their hunger strike: Saeed Masouri, Jafar Eghdami, Abolghassem Fouladvand, Reza Akbari Monfared, Hassan Sadeghi Khoramdashti and Amir Ghaziyani where transferred to solitary cells, and in the ward’s hall, some prisoners on strike, as well, including, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi and Mohammad Ali Mansouri </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18506'> According to Iran Prison Atlas, the prisoners who had been transferred to solitary cells, were returned to the ward in the past several days, without having signed an end-of-hunger-strike form. According to an informed source, around 15 prisoners are on hunger strike and Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Mansouri and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi are those among them who’ve been suffering from faintness </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20125'> 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 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='23165'> HRANA reported that Tehran Appeals Court confirmed his initial verdict </coverage-outsourcing>