18 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Standing up to the execution machinery binds society together. On the sixth day of the hunger strike by prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, a group of political prisoners at Ghezel Hesar issued a statement supporting and expressing solidarity with the striking inmates. […]
17 October 2025News group: Executions – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Death-row prisoners held in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison have entered the fourth day of a hunger strike against executions, amid threats from officials including the Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran. According to Breathing in Confinement, 1,500 prisoners in Unit 2 have […]
16 October 2025News Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – Eight citizens and political activists from Javanrud and Sarpol-e Zahab have been summoned to the Enforcement of Judgments office of the Kermanshah judiciary to begin serving their prison terms. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, those summoned […]
15 October 2025 (see note on date below)News Category: Executions Breathing in Confinement – The death sentences of at least three prisoners convicted on charges related to “narcotics offences” were carried out in Arak Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at dawn on Wednesday, 15 […]
15 October 2025 Category: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentences of at least three prisoners convicted by the Tehran Revolutionary Court of “moharebeh (enmity against God) through armed robbery” were carried out in Ghezel Hessar Prison, Karaj. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in […]
14 October 2025 Category: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentence of at least one prisoner convicted of “murder” was carried out in Sirjan Prison. According to reports received by Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at dawn on Tuesday, 14 October 2025, a prisoner was […]
14 October 2025News Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – As part of the growing wave of protests against the unprecedented surge in executions across Iran, on Tuesday the prisoners of Ward 3 of Ghezel Hesar Prison joined those in Ward 2 in a hunger strike, declaring their solidarity with their fellow inmates. This protest coincides […]
14 October 2025News group: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentence of at least one prisoner who had been arrested on charges of armed robbery and armed transport of narcotics was carried out in Yasuj Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, at dawn on Tuesday, 14 October 2025, a prisoner was executed in […]
14 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – As the nationwide “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign reaches its ninetieth week and the call for freedom grows louder, prisoners in Ghezel Hesar have staged a sit-in and returned prison meals in protest—not only against the widespread wave of executions, but also to demand justice and […]
13 October 2025 News category: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – In continuation of the protests against the extensive wave of executions in Ghezel Hessar Prison, a group of prisoners in Ward 2 of the facility have launched a hunger strike and sit-in. This protest began after at least 19 prisoners were transferred to […]