Breathing in Confinement – On Saturday, October 26, Six workers’ rights activists who had been arrested during Haft-Tappeh protests and World Labor Day, were temporarily released on bail from Evin and Qarchak prisons awaiting their trials to be finalized.
Breathing in Confinement _ ” Over the last many years, the persistence of the imposed separations and pressures on women prisoners, rather than being an effective factor to break them, has been clear evidence of their resistance and steadfastness as well as their determination in their struggle.”
Breathing in Confinement _ On the occasion of World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran annually reports the number of executions carried out in Iran. All of the figures are gathered by the League’s Statistics Center and other trusted human rights activists and institutions.
Breathing in Confinement – In the morning of Wednesday, October 23rd, a prisoner named Majid Sarpanah was hanged in public in the student’s park in Rasht. According to a report received by Breathing in Confinement, Majid Sarpanah, 27, was accused of murdering a “policeman” during a scuffle in about 11 months ago. His friends and […]
Breathing in Confinement – At least 123 prisoners have been executed in Iran in the past six months. The Center of Statistics of Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran (PRLI) has published a report on the first half of the Shamsi year from March 20 to September 20, 2019, while Ibrahim Raisi has been appointed as […]
Breathing in Confinement – Three political prisoners, Giti Pour Fazel, Shahla Entesari and Shahla Jahanbin were transferred last night to the political women ward of Evin prison. The three political activists, after a month of being kept in detention and under interrogation, were transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison on September 22. Giti […]
Breathing in Confinement – Motalleb Ahmadian a Kurdish political prisoner was transferred from Evin to Rajai Shahr prison on Sunday, September 15, 2019. Ahmadian accused of being related to one of the Kurdish groups has been imprisoned over the last 11 years. This prisoner (from Saqez city), was previously kept in Sanandaj prison while having […]
Breathing in Confinement – The authorities of Evin prison have recently told to the imprisoned women that their weekly meetings with their children was canceled. Prison authorities have also stated that their family visits will be once in a month but when they were asked about the source of this order, they have said that […]
Breathing in Confinement – The weekly prison visit of imprisoned women in Evin prison with their children has been terminated. According to the reports obtained by Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran (PRLI), the prisoners of women’s ward of Evin prison have been informed on August 19, 2019 that their weekly visits with their children will […]
Breathing in Confinement – The number of political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin prison have reached to 41 after a number of prisoners were transferred to this ward from Qarchak prison of Varamin. Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran (PRLI) published the newest list of these prisoners and their executable sentences: