Breathing in Confinement

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June 29th, 2020

Zeinab Jalalian and Soheila Hijab are on hunger strike in Qarchak prison

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.

June 29th, 2020

To serve his 2 year sentence, Alireza Nouri, a member of the Iranian Writers Association, was arrested and transferred to Isfahan Prison

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.

June 22nd, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Noor 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 […]

June 22nd, 2020

Iraj Hatami, a security prisoner, catches Coronavirus infection in Rajai Shahr prison; the lives of political prisoners in Ward 10 are in danger

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.

June 14th, 2020

Corona virus threatens prisoners’ lives; Ali Younesi, a detained university student captured Covid-19

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.

June 12th, 2020

Despite the efforts of civil society activists to obtain the consent of blood owners, a prisoner was executed in Naqadeh 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,

June 12th, 2020

Without having been sentenced to death, a Baloch inmate, was executed in Birjand prison

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.

June 11th, 2020

New case is filed against Atena Daemi in prison

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.

June 11th, 2020

Detention of three Baha’i citizens in Rafsanjan

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.

June 11th, 2020

Maryam Akbari Monfared has been summoned to the court for a new case opened against her in her 11th year of imprisonment

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.