Breathing in Confinement: Zeinab Jalalian and Soheila Hijab went on a hunger strike to protest the poor conditions in Qarchak Prison, and requesting for transfer.
Breathing in Confinement: Alireza Nouri, a poet, writer and member of the Iranian Writers Association, receiving a summon to serve his two-year sentence, was arrested on June 23, on his visit to Branch 5 of Isfahan Court and was transferred to Isfahan Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner sentenced to death on charges of murder, was executed in Noor Prison on June 16, 2020. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to death in 2015 for killing an environment protector in the forests […]
Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, June 15, 2020, Iraj Hatami, a security prisoner in Rajai Shahr Prison, having symptoms of Coronavirus infection such as; fever and chills, severe headache, muscle pain and shortness of breath, visited a doctor at Prison’s Medical Center. Hatami after being diagnosed with Covid-19 was sent on leave.
Breathing in Confinement: Ali Younesi, a computer engineering student at Sharif University of Technology, and a gold medalist in the International Astronomy Olympiad has captured Covid-19 in Ward 209 at Evin Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of Wednesday, June 10, 2020, a death sentence was carried out in Naqadeh Prison. The executed prisoner had been arrested four years ago on charges of murder and was later sentenced to death,
Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, June 6, 2020, a Baloch man who had previously been sentenced to prison on drug charges, was executed in Birjand Prison without even having a death sentence.
Breathing in Confinement: Atena Daemi, a civil rights activist who is serving her fifth year in Evin Prison, was summoned this morning to Branch 2 of Evin Prison Court, for a new case filed against her.
Breathing in Confinement: On Sunday, June 7, security officers raided the homes of three Baha’i citizens in Rafsanjan, confiscated their personal belongings, including mobile phones and books, and then transferred them to an unknown location.
Breathing in Confinement: To be charged in a new case, in her 11th year in prison, on June 10, 2020, the political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared was summoned to Moghaddas Court in Evin Prison.