Breathing in Confinement: Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student union activist and former political prisoner, was sentenced by Branch 28 of Revolutionary Court in Tehran to five years in prison as well as two years of ban from social media activities. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Leila […]
Breathing in Confinement: Out of poverty and unemployment, a teenager from Jack attempted suicide. According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on February 12, 2021, a 17-year-old teenager named “Ali Durandish” from the village of Gishdan in Jask, hanged himself because of unemployment and poverty. According to the report, as there was no school in Gishan […]
Breathing in Confinement: The Court of Appeals in Tehran upheld the sentence of 5 years imprisonment for Marjan Ishaqi, the political science student at the University of Tehran and one of the detainees of the November 2019 protests. Ms. Ishaqi was previously sentenced to 1 year in prison as well as 4 years suspended imprisonment […]
Breathing in Confinement: Court of Appeals sentenced Zahra Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and head of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association in Kurdistan, to five years in prison. According to Hengaw Human Rights Organization, on Saturday, February 13, 2021, the sentence of 10 years imprisonment for Zahra Mohammadi, was reduced to 5 years by the Court […]
Breathing in Confinement: The sentences of two women rights activists, Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi, were upheld by Tehran’s Court of Appeals. Hoda Amid, a lawyer and women’s rights activist, and Najmeh Vahedi, a women’s rights activist, were previously sentenced to 15 years in prison as well as two years band from social activities, by […]
Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner in Kurdistan province, sentenced to death for murder, was released from execution with the consent of the victim’s family.
Breathing in Confinement: A Kulbar lost his life after falling from the border heights of Marivan city.
Breathing in Confinement, February 9, 2021: Khedr Ghaderi Azar and Shafi Mohammadnejad, two citizens of Piranshahr, were sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison by the city’s Revolutionary Court. The two citizens had previously been detained by security forces in early November and released on bail in late December. According […]
Breathing in Confinement, February 9, 2021: On Tuesday, February 9, 2021, after appearing in Evin’s Sentence Implementation Unit, Hossein Jandaghian, a student activist was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison to serve his six-month sentence. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Hossein Jandaghian […]
Breathing in Confinement: The prison sentence for Suha Mortezaei, the student activist and former secretary of the Tehran University Guild Council, was upheld in Tehran Court of Appeals- Branch 54. Suha Mortezaei had previously been sentenced to six years in prison by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. According to Breathing in […]