Breathing in Confinement

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April 29th, 2022

Nooshin Keshavarznia, a women’s rights activist, was arrested in Tehran

27-April-2022 Newsgroup: Women – Breathing in Confinement: Nooshin Keshavarznia, a social researcher and women’s rights activist, was arrested by security forces and taken to an unknown location. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Noushin Keshavarznia was arrested on Monday, April 25, after being summoned by security […]

April 29th, 2022

Ali Kajbaf sentenced to 1.5 years in prison

27-April-2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz sentenced Ali Kajbaf to one year and six months in prison.   On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, Ali Kajbaf was sentenced by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court to one year and six months in prison. If the sentence is […]

April 29th, 2022

After 18 days of peaceful protests; Beating and arresting protesters in Saravan and transferring them to an unknown location by ambulance + Videos of the scene

28-April-2022 Newsgroup: Suppression – Breathing in Confinement: On April 28, 2022, Special Forces in Gilan Province. using tear gas and batons attacked the protesters in the village of Saravan, wounding some, and arresting some others. The violence erupted after 18 days of peaceful rallies of people in Saravan to prevent the transfer of garbage and […]

April 27th, 2022

Security forces beat Ali Hassan Bahamin in front of Yasuj University + video

25-April-2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Teachers – Breathing in Confinement: On April 25, 2022, Ali Hassan Bahamin, a teacher union activist, was beaten by security forces in front of Yasuj University. Without presenting an arrest warrant, security forces attempted to detain Mr. Bahamin  but faced his resistance. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of […]

April 27th, 2022

Seventh day of hunger strike; Sudden transfer of Behnam Moosivand to Evin Prison

25-April-2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Behnam Moosivand, a political prisoner imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, was suddenly transferred to Evin Prison on the seventh day of his hunger strike and was admitted to the Evin’s infirmary. Mr. Moosivand has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in protest […]

April 27th, 2022

Sentences of 16 years in prison for Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi 

25-April-2022 Newsgroup: Students –   Breathing in Confinement: Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, the two detained students at Sharif University of Technology, were each sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.   According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Branch 29 […]

April 24th, 2022

A report on the situation of human rights in Iran over the past one month (March 20 to April 20, 2022)

  23-April-2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Workers and Guilds – Teachers In an attempt to reveal the violations of human rights in Iran, the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, publishes the gathered data regarding the human rights violations over the past one month (March 20 to April 20, 2022).   Executions Despite […]

April 22nd, 2022

Teachers’ nationwide protests in various cities across the country; Temporary detention of dozens of teachers

22-April-2022 Newsgroup: Teachers –   Breathing in Confinement: Yesterday, April 21, 2022, following a call from the Coordinating Council of Teachers’ Unions, the employed as well as the retired teachers staged protest rallies in various cities across the country. Teachers in at least 50 cities of 20 provinces gathered in front of the Provincial Education […]

April 18th, 2022

Rasoul Bodaghi, a member of the Islamshahr Teachers’ Union, sentenced to five years in prison

17-April-2022 Newsgroup: Teachers – Breathing in Confinement: Rasoul Bodaghi, a member of the Islamshahr Teachers’ Union, was sentenced by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to five years in prison as well as a 2-year ban from leaving the country and from residing in Tehran and all neighboring provinces. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news […]

April 16th, 2022

Mehdi Salehi died in prison and buried under security measures

15-April-2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: Mehdi Salehi, a political prisoner sentenced to death, who had fallen into a coma after receiving a wrong medication injection in prison, died. Mehdi was one of the detainees of the January 2017 protests. His body was buried in a new cemetery in Yazdanshahr, on Friday, […]