Breathing in Confinement

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August 13th, 2021

Sardasht; No information on the fate of two detained citizens

12-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: More than forty days after the arrest of two Kurdish citizens named “Shawan Sheikh” and “Kaveh Sharifi” from Sardasht, there is still no information about their fate or their whereabouts.   According to an informed source, since the time of their arrest, the two citizens have been denied […]

August 11th, 2021

Covid-19 crisis in women’s ward of Evin Prison; Niloufar Bayani goes on leave

11-August-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, August 11, Niloufar Bayani, an environmental activist, was sent on leave from Evin Prison, because of having Covid-19 disease. In recent weeks, at the women’s ward of Evin Prison, a number of inmates had developed severe Covid-19 symptoms and Ms. Bayani along with other […]

August 11th, 2021

The civil activist Javad Lael Mohammadi, released from prison

11-August-2021 Newsgroup: Uncategorized – Breathing in Confinement: The civil activist Javad Lael Mohammadi, was released from the custody of a security agency in Mashhad. He was arrested by security forces in Mashhad on August 1, during a protest rally in support of the people of Khuzestan and against the country’s critical condition.   According to […]

August 11th, 2021

Release of Habib Fadaei

11-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, August 11, Habib Fadaei, a citizen living in Junqan, who had been detained by security forces on Tuesday, was released.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Habib Fadaei, a citizen living in Junqan, was released on […]

August 11th, 2021

Sweden tries Hamid Nouri over the massacre of political prisoners in 1988

10-August-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The trial of Hamid Nouri, Assistant Prosecutor of Gohardasht Prison in the 1980s, began on Tuesday, August 19, 2021, in Stockholm, Sweden, on charges of “participating in the mass executions of political prisoners in the summer of 1988,” as well as “murder, […]

August 11th, 2021

People of Junqan protested the arrest of Habib Fadaei

10-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, August 10, following the arrest of Habib Fadaei, by security forces at his home, a group of people in the town of Junqan staged a protest rally, demanding his release.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, […]

August 11th, 2021

To serve his sentence, Nasser Hemmati was arrested and transferred to Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan

10-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On August 10, 2021, the civil activist, Nasser Hemmati, to serve his sentence, was arrested and transferred to Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, following being summoned by the prison’s Sentence Implementation Unit. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Nasser Hemmati, […]

August 10th, 2021

Arrest of Akbar Azad after appearing in the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Baharestan

10-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Akbar Azad, a writer and activist living in Azerbaijan, was arrested by judicial officers on August 9, 2021, after appearing in Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Baharestan town in Tehran, from where he was transferred to an unknown location.   According to Breathing in Confinement, The news […]

August 10th, 2021

Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic responds to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding the deportation of female political prisoners

10-August-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Following the UNHCR’s pursuit of deportation of women political prisoners from Evin Prison to the other cities, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic responded in a letter dated Wednesday, August 4, 2021 by defending the transfer of Yasaman Ariani, Monireh Arabshahi, Mojgan Keshavarz, Atena Daemi, […]

August 10th, 2021

Covid-19 crisis in Iran; Head of the Islamic Republic’s Medical Council: Are those who issued statement on banning the import of vaccine, accountable today?

9-August-2021 Newsgroup: Uncategorized – Breathing in Confinement: According to the official statistics released by the Covid-19 headquarter, yesterday an unprecedented number of over 40,000 new patients were registered and 542 people died because of the disease. This is despite the fact that the officials of Iran’s Medical Council have repeatedly stated that the real figures […]