Breathing in Confinement

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November 22nd, 2021

Seven months in prison for the union activist Latif Rouzikhah

  22-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Latif Rouzikhah, a member of the board of directors of the East Azarbaijan Teachers’ Association, was sentenced to seven months in prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League Iran, Latif Rouzikhah, a trade union activist and a member of the […]

November 22nd, 2021

Asal Mohammadi released on bail

  22-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Today, Monday, November 22, 2021, Asal Mohammadi was temporarily released from Evin Prison on bail. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, earlier today, Asal Mohammadi was released from Evin Prison. Asal Mohammadi and Hirad Pirbdaghi had been arrested […]

November 21st, 2021

Houshamand Alipour goes on a hunger strike in Sanandaj prison

November 20, 2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Houshmand Alipour, a political prisoner in Sanandaj, has been on a hunger strike since November 16, 2021, to protest the interference of the Intelligence  Office in his case, and as well, the rejection of his request for leave and meeting with his family by the office. […]

November 20th, 2021

Increased pressure on the families of those killed in November 2019; Short-term detention of Pejman Gholipour’s family

18-November-2021 Newsgroup: Repression – Breathing in Confinement: On November 18, the family members (mother, father and brother) of Pejman Gholipour, one of the victims of the November 2019 uprisings, were detained by security forces and released after several hours of interrogation. During the arrest, security forces confiscated the family’s cell phones and made their social […]

November 20th, 2021

Wadud Asadi is still being held in a state of uncertainty in the detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence in Rasht

19-November-2021 Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: Twenty days after his arrest, Wadud Asadi, a civil activist from East Azerbaijan Province, is still under interrogation in the custody of the Intelligence Office. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Wadud Asadi, a civil activist […]

November 18th, 2021

Mohammad Nourizad was released from prison; His son Ali Nourizad, however, was returned to the Greater Tehran Prison after completing his two days leave

17-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On November 17, after his sentence was suspended, the political prisoner Mohammad Nourizad was released from Evin Prison. On the same day before the release of Mohammad Nourizad, his son Ali Nourizad was returned to the Greater Tehran Prison at the end of his leave.   According to […]

November 18th, 2021

Arrest of Samku Maroufi, to serve his prison sentence

17-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, Samku Maroufi, a civil activist, and founder of the Walat Environmental Association in Bukan, was arrested to serve his one-year sentence in prison.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Samku Maroufi was arrested […]

November 18th, 2021

Soheila Hijab deported to Sanandaj Prison

  17-November-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, November 16, the political prisoner, Soheila Hijab, was deported from Qarchak Prison in Varamin to Sanandaj Prison. The imprisoned lawyer, Ms. Hijab,  has been serving her five-year sentence in Qarchak prison in Varamin since June 2020.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the […]

November 15th, 2021

Shahin Barzegar received a sentence of fine as well as imprisonment

15-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Shahin Barzegar, a civil activist from East Azerbaijan Province, was sentenced to 91 days in prison as well as a fine of 40 million Rials to be deposited to the state treasury. Shahin had been arrested during a rally in Tabriz in support of the uprisings in Khuzestan. […]

November 15th, 2021

Increased detention rates concurrently with the second anniversary of the November 2019 uprising; The brother of one of those killed in November 2019 along with two other citizens were arrested in Behbahan

15-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: At the second anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, Mohsen Qanavati along with two other citizens named Amin Moradi and Payam Jeyhouni were arrested. Mohsen is the brother of Mohammad Hossein Qanavani, one of those killed in November 2019 in Behbahan.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the […]