Breathing in Confinement: Reza Younesi, brother of Ali Younesi, a detained student at Sharif University, reported that security forces were trying to trick Ali Younesi into obtaining a forced confession under the pretext of meeting with the Swedish ambassador or officials. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in […]
Breathing in Confinement: Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, two elite students at Sharif University who have been under detention for more than five months, are under pressure for forced confessions.
Breathing in Confinement: On September 3, 2020, Javid Rahman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, released his latest report on human rights violations in Iran. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, in this report, Javid Rahman, expressed his concerns […]
Breathing in Confinement: At least three prisoners who in separate cases had previously been sentenced to death were executed in the end of July and the beginning of August 2020 in Isfahan Central Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: Mohammad Mosaed, a fired journalist, was sentenced to prison plus being banned from journalism by the Revolutionary Court.
Shortly after being admitted to Evin Prison Medical Centre with the diagnosis of Covid-19, Behnam Moosivand, a political prisoner in Ward 8 of Evin Prison, was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Behnam Moosivand, having symptoms of the Corona-virus infection, was […]
Breathing in Confinement: Navid, Vahid, and Habib Afkari Sangari, three brothers who had been arrested in the City of Shiraz at the time of the nationwide protests in August 2018, were tried in both the Revolutionary Court and the Criminal Court in Shiraz. According to the verdicts, Navid Afkari has sentenced to death twice plus […]
Breathing in Confinement: Following a complaint filed against the residents by Bonyad-e Mostazafan (Foundation of the Oppressed), and after the law enforcement agents along with the municipality staffs were deployed to”Hazrat Abolfazl” village in Ahvaz, to demolish the houses, the residents protested the decision and fought with the police. “In this clash, the unarmed […]
Breathing in Confinement: While on leave from prison, an inmate killed his ex-wife and afterward, went to the police station to confess. He was in prison on a charge of unpaid dowry (the amount of money that at the time of marriage, is mutually agreed to be paid or being committed to be paid by […]
Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, August 18, 2020, four prisoners who had previously been sentenced to death on murder charges, were executed in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. And at least one woman was among those executed.