In December, Farshid Fathi was sentenced to a further year in prison, which will commence immediately following the six-year sentence he is currently serving, thus postponing his release from December 2016 to 2017.
It is believed that this development stems from a violent raid on prisoners of ward 350 of Evin prison in April 2014, in which several prisoners were injured, including Farshid. In August 2014, many of the prisoners, including Farshid, were moved to other prisons.
A few days after his arrival at Rajai Shahr prison, Farshid was falsely accused of possessing alcohol while in Evin prison. Farshid was finally called to court on 29 December 2014, when the one-year sentence was issued.
