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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
March 28, 2022 Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Yousef Salahshour, an activist living in Tabriz, was sentenced by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Tabriz to 1 year in prison and supplementary punishments of 2 years ban on leaving the country as well as 2 years ban on activities […]
Introduction The following report is the conclusion of yearlong efforts of the colleagues of Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran (Breathing in Confinement), which has been provided on the basis of the direct and indirect information collected from numerous human rights sources in the Solar Hijri year of 1400 (corresponding to the period between March 21, […]
March 26, 2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Breathing in Confinement: Hossein Rouintan, a journalist and political activist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fine payment. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Hossein Rouintan, a journalist and political activist living in Dashtestan, was […]
March 17, 2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, Mohammad Rajabi, one of the protesters arrested during the November 2019 uprisings, was released on bail from the Greater Tehran Prison. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, […]
March 14, 2022 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Monday, March 14, the civil activist, Saba Kordafshari, returned to Qarchak prison in Varamin at the end of her leave. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Monday, March 14, 2022, the civil […]