30-April-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, April 28, the Kerman Provincial Prosecutor announced the arrest of 10 people so called as “takfiri and counter-revolutionary agents,” and said that these individuals had been arrested as per the court order and that their cases are under process in the court. According to Tasnim news […]
30-April-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Askar Issaei, the police commander of the City of Selseleh, announced on Thursday, April 29, that 13 people had been arrested in connection with the protests of the residents in Kahman area. On Wednesday, April 28, following protests in the area against the cutting of walnut trees, […]
27-April-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: I a statement, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom condemned additional prison sentence for the religious prisoner of conscience Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee. The commission’s statement, released on Monday, April 26, 2021 saying: “Ms. Iraee, who is detained at Amol Prison in Mazandaran Province, was not […]
27-April-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Religious Minorities Breathing in Confinement: On April 25, in a raid by security forces on the homes of 14 Baha’i families, at least nine were arrested. After searching the homes of these citizens, security officers confiscated their personal belongings, including laptops, cell phones, books and pamphlets related to the Baha’i […]
27-April-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The lawyer of Nazanin Zaghari, an Iranian-British citizen whose five-year sentence for espionage ended in March 2021, announced that his client has been sentenced to another year in prison as well as a one-year ban from leaving the country in her second case. According to “Breathing […]
24-April-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: More than 40 days have passed since the deportation of Maryam Akbari Monfared to Semnan Prison. Pressures and restrictions on this political prisoner however, is still ongoing. Her daily phone contacts with her family are limited and this political prisoner is only permitted to call her […]
22-April-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Women – Prisoners – In Farvardin 1400 (March 20 to April 20, 2021): At least 18 prisoners have been executed and 7 death sentences have been issued At least 135 civil, political and social media activists have been arrested Thirty six political and ideological activists have […]
21-April-2021 Newsgroup: Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement: Despite the New Year holidays and the Covid-19 pandemic, as a result of poor living conditions and economic and social pressures, various groups of people have been continuously holding protest rallies in Iran. Protesters generally staged rallies because of not receiving their salaries and also for […]
21-April-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Today April 21, the people and merchants of Alaeddin Mall in Tehran staged a protest rally in front of the mall, protesting against the government’s failure to address their demands. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, today, Wednesday, April […]
21-April-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Yesterday, April 20, 2021, the political prisoner Abdolrasoul Mortazavi, imprisoned in Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj, was transferred to an unknown location, under the pretext of receiving his prosthetic leg. His transfer sparked protests by the other political prisoners, who reacted by covering CCTV cameras in the hall. […]