9-August-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Breathing in Confinement: Amir Ghalehnoei, the head coach of Golgohar football team was sentenced by the Ethics Committee of the Iranian Football Federation to three months ban on coaching, as well as paying a fine of 300 million Tomans for saying that: “In the past 42 years there has […]
9-August-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Breathing in Confinement: On Sunday, August 8, the driver of a Peugeot Pars car in Urmia, after objecting two women’s type of clothing, ran over them by his car. And this was done under the pretext of “Amr bi al-Maruf wa’l-Nahy an al-Munkar,” meaning advising people to do good and avoid […]
8-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: To serve her sentence, Azam Shirafkan, one of the detainees of the November 2019 uprisings, who had previously been sentenced to 6 years in prison, was arrested and transferred to Kachuei Prison in Karaj. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]
8-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: In a new case opened against the political prisoner, Soheil Arabi, in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, he was sentenced to two more years in prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, in a new case on charge […]
8-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The Gonabadi dervish, Kianoosh Abbaszadeh, was released on parole from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary on August 8, 2021. Mr. Abbaszadeh had previously been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to 16 years and 6 months in prison, exile, as well as deprivation from some social rights. Last […]
5-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Hamshahri newspaper, in a report on the uprisings in Khuzestan against the water crisis, admitted the arrest of 300 protesters only in the city of Susangerd. In this report, referring to the peaceful gathering of “12,000 people”, violence and the use of force have been attributed to the […]
4-August-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Nine civil activists received a message from the Sana Electronic System on August 3, saying that a case had been filed against them in Branch 2 of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office. These civil activists were arrested on July 20, 2021, after staging a rally […]
5-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Five political defendants, Nahid Taghavi, Mehran Raouf, Somayeh Kargar, Bahareh Soleimani, and Nazanin Mohammadnejad, were sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran to a total of 38 years in prison. Nahid Taghavi and Mehran Raouf are currently being held in Evin Prison, and the other […]
2-August-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Ethnic Minorities – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, July 15, 2021, people in various cities in Khuzestan staged rallies to protest the water crisis. From Thursday evening, people took to the streets in the cities of Susangerd, Mahshahr, Ahvaz, Abadan, Bostan, Hamidiyeh, Zoviyeh alley and Dasht-e Azadegan. […]
2-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Yesterday, Sunday, August 1, 2021, a group of people from Ahvaz living in Mashhad along with a number of activists gathered in Mellat Park in Mashhad to support the uprisings in Khuzestan. The rally was dealt with violence by police and security forces, and a number of protesters, […]