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In the holy month of Ramadan, Friday Imam in the County of Pashamag is Summoned and interrogated

Breathing in Confinement, May 22, 2020: Hafez Akram Koohi, the Friday Imam of Pashamag County in Zahedan, was summoned to and interrogated in the…

Freedom of Expression May 25, 2020

Appeals court upheld the sentence of 25-year in prison for seven trade union activist teachers in North Khorasan

Breathing in Confinement, May 20, 2020: The Court of Appeals in North Khorasan, upheld the sentence of 25 years in prison for seven activists…

May 25, 2020
executions
executions

After 19 years in prison, an inmate in Zanjan is released from jail and saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement May 22, 2020: After serving 19 years in prison, an inmate, sentenced to death in Zanjan prison, was pardoned by the…

executions May 25, 2020
executions
executions

A prisoner in Urmia released from execution

Breathing in Confinement, May 22, 2020: After two years of imprisonment, being pardoned by the victim’s family, an inmate in Urmia Prison was saved…

executions May 25, 2020
Ethnic minorities
Ethnic minorities

Security forces arrested a citizen in Piranshahr

Breathing in Confinement: A citizen named Abbas Sedighi from Piranshahr, being arrested by the security forces for unknown reasons was transferred to an unknown…

Ethnic minorities May 20, 2020

Seven Baha’i citizens in Shiraz were sentenced to a total of 39 years in prison

Breathing in Confinement May 16, 2020: Seven Baha’i citizens living in Shiraz, were sentenced to a total of 39 years in prison based on…

May 20, 2020

Reza Eslami, a professor of human rights at Tehran’s Beheshti University, is arrested

Breathing in Confinement May 16, 2020: Reza Eslami, a university professor and a member of Faculty of Law at Shahid Beheshti University, being arrested…

May 20, 2020

Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to 6 years in prison

Breathing in Confinement: Fariba Adelkhah, a dual-national prisoner in Evin Prison, was sentenced to six years in prison by Tehran Revolutionary Court

May 20, 2020
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of Expression

Amir Chamani, was released

Breathing in Confinement: On May 19, 2020, after a month and a half of being in detention, the civil activist Amir Chamani, was released…

Freedom of Expression May 20, 2020
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of Expression

Payam Derafshan, Attorney at Law, convicted to two years in prison and a license suspension of 2 years

Breathing in Confinement, Sunday, May 10, 2020: The lawyer, Payam Derafshan, was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of license suspension.

Freedom of Expression May 16, 2020