25-August-2021 Newsgroup: Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement: The ongoing miserable economic situation and livelihood pressures, led to the spread of the protest rallies across the country. Over the past one month (July 20 to August 20, 2021), at least 225 protests took place by various groups of people. Despite the spread of delta […]
24-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Following the release of videos showing the torture of prisoners in Evin, after its CCTV cameras were hacked, Mohammad Mehdi Haj Mohammadi, the chief of the Prisons Organization, confirmed the validity of the videos and admitted the existence of torture in Evin Prison. According to Breathing in […]
23-August-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The examples of the ongoing human rights violations by the authorities of the Islamic Republic over the past month, included the executions, arrests, imprisonment, and floggings. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]
23-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Branch 38 of the Supreme Court rejected the request of Vahid Afkari, the brother of the executed wrestler Navid Afkari, for retrial. Vahid had previously been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz to 25 years in prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of […]
23-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Yesterday, a group called “Adalat-e Ali,” publishing videos from the camera control room of Evin Prison, announced that they had hacked into the Prison’s security network. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, according to videos published on social […]
23-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On August 22, 2021, Saleh Ekrami and Babak Rezaei, two activists from Azerbaijan- Iran, were released from prison on bail, awaiting the trial. These two activists had been arrested on July 27, 2021 in the City of Nasimshahr in Tehran. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news […]
19-August-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On August 19, the political prisoner in Bushehr Prison, Sepideh Gholian who had recently tested positive for Covid-19, was sent on leave. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Sepideh Gholian, was sent on a seven-day leave from Bushehr […]
18-August-2021 Newsgroup: Execution – Breathing in Confinement: Gross violations of human rights, including detention, imprisonment, and deportation of civil, political, and ideological activists; expulsion and detention of teachers and students; repression of the journalists and reporters; repression of religious and ethnic minorities; as well as the brutal treatment of the protesters in December 2017, August […]
17-August-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, August 14, the political prisoner Soheila Hijab, was sent on a 7 day leave from Qarchak Prison in Varamin. The imprisoned lawyer Soheila Hijab, has been serving her five-year sentence in Qarchak prison in Varamin since June 2020. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, […]
15-August-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Women – Breathing in Confinement: On August 14, 2021, five lawyers, along with two civil activists and a journalist, were arrested at the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights Office in Tehran. Two of them were released a few hours later, and five others are still in custody. […]