Breathing in Confinement

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June 4th, 2020

Mohammad Ghaderi, a citizen from Piranshahr, is threatened to death while under the torture

Breathing in Confinement, May 29, 2020: Mohammad Ghaderi, a citizen from Piranshahr, being detained by the security forces since May 4, is subjected to severe torture to the point of going unconscious.

June 4th, 2020

Saeed Eghbali is transferred to Evin Prison to serve his five years sentence

Breathing in Confinement: After being summoned, Saeed Eghbali, one of the detainees of January 2018 uprising, was arrested on May 31, 2020, and was transferred to Evin prison to serve his five years sentence.

June 4th, 2020

Rashid Naserzadeh’s case is referred to the Court of Appeals

Breathing in Confinement: On May 31, 2020, to be retried, the case of Rashid Naserzadeh, an environmental activist from the County of Oshnavieh, was referred to the Court of Appeal. He had previously been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of conspiracy, gathering, and collusion against the national security, as well as propaganda […]

May 25th, 2020

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 IRGC Intelligence Office in Zahedan.

May 25th, 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 and directors of North Khorasan Teachers’ Union.

May 25th, 2020

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 victim’s parents, released from jail and returned to his family.

May 25th, 2020

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 from execution. He had previously been sentenced to death on charge of murder.

May 20th, 2020

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 location.

May 20th, 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 a ruling issued by the Branch-1of the City’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Sadati. They are convicted on charges of “propaganda against the regime and membership in anti-regime groups aimed […]

May 20th, 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 by the Ministry of Intelligence forces was taken to an unknown location.