Breathing in Confinement

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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.

May 20th, 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 20th, 2020

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 on bail from the IRGC Intelligence Detention Center in Tabriz.

May 16th, 2020

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.