10 February 2026 News category: Protests Breathing in Confinement – Ali Heydari, a 20-year-old young man, was injured during popular protests on 8 January 2026 in Mashhad after being shot directly in the leg by security forces. According to accounts from his friends, he was arrested while in critical physical condition. From that point […]
10 February 2026 News category: Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike Breathing in Confinement – The hunger strike of political prisoners participating in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign has reached its 107th consecutive week across 56 prisons nationwide. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the escalating wave […]
8 February 2026News Category: Prison Sentence – Breathing in Confinement – Ms Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent human rights activist, has been sentenced to imprisonment, internal exile, and a ban on leaving the country. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Mostafa Nili, Ms […]
6 February 2026News Category: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Nasser Bekarzadeh, a security prisoner held at Urmia Prison, has been sentenced to death for the third time by Branch Two of the Urmia Revolutionary Court on charges of “espionage,” even though the previous death sentences in his case had been overturned twice by the […]
3 February 2026News Category: Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike – Breathing in Confinement – The hunger strike of political prisoners participating in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign has entered its 106th week, spanning 56 prisons across the country. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the statement issued […]
2 February 2026News Category: Arrest – Breathing in Confinement – Dr Shamsi Abbasalizadeh, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, sustained a traumatic brain injury as a result of severe beating during her arrest for participating in popular protests in Tabriz, and was subsequently hospitalised at Mahalati Hospital. Dr Abbasalizadeh is a well-known and widely respected […]
4 February 2026News Category: Arrest – Breathing in Confinement – Amid the continued wave of widespread arrests following the violent crackdown on the nationwide protests of January 2026, Somayeh Heydari, 23 years old and a physics student at Tabriz University, has been arrested by security forces in the city. According to Breathing in Confinement, the […]
4 February 2026News Category: Execution – Breathing in Confinement – On Tuesday, 3 February 2026, the death sentence of at least one prisoner, who had previously been arrested on charges of “murder” and sentenced to execution, was carried out at Tabriz Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]
4 February 2026News Category: Arrest – Breathing in Confinement – Mahtab Salehi, a student of French language at Tabriz University, has been arrested in connection with the protests of January 2026 in Tabriz. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Mahtab Salehi, 23 years old and a […]
31 January 2026News Category: Arrest – Breathing in Confinement – Three members of the family of Babak Alipour, a political prisoner sentenced to death, were arrested by security forces while returning from a visit with him. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Omm-ol-Banin Dehghan (mother), Maryam […]