Breathing in Confinement

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February 10th, 2021

Ebrahim Firoozi detained while in exile and transferred to Chabahar prison

  Breathing in Confinement, February 10, 2021: On Monday, February 8, 2021, Ebrahim Firoozi, a Christian convert who is serving his exile, after being summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Rusk, was arrested and transferred to the Chabahar Prison. The reason for his arrest and his whereabouts is yet to be known. […]

February 10th, 2021

Ebrahim Firoozi detained while in exile and transferred to Chabahar prison

Breathing in Confinement, February 10, 2021: On Monday, February 8, 2021, Ebrahim Firoozi, a Christian convert who is serving his exile, after being summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Rusk, was arrested and transferred to the Chabahar Prison. The reason for his arrest and his whereabouts is yet to be known.

February 9th, 2021

Revolutionary Court in Piranshahr sentences two of the citizens to a total of ten years in prison

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.

February 9th, 2021

To serve his sentence, Hossein Jandaghian arrested and transferred to Evin Prison

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.

February 9th, 2021

Court of Appeal upholds the sentence of 6 years imprisonment for Suha Mortezaei

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.

February 6th, 2021

A woman’s body was set on fire after being killed by her father and brother

Breathing in Confinement, February 6, 2021: A young woman from Urmia was killed by her brother and father and her body was set on fire. According to the report of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, a 32-year-old woman from the village of Gangchin in the Baradust district of Urmia, […]

February 6th, 2021

Shahram Amjadian was sentenced to three years in prison

Breathing in Confinement, February 6, 2021: Shahram Amjadian, from the City of Sanandaj, who was arrested by security forces in the summer of 2019, was sentenced to three years in prison.

January 26th, 2021

Execution of a wrestler in Dezful prison

Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of January 25, a wrestler from the City of Andimeshk, who for five years had been under execution in prison for murder, was executed in Dezful prison this morning disregarding the international protests.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, […]

January 26th, 2021

Security forces detain a citizen in Bukan

Breating in Confinement: Without presenting a court order, security forces arrested a citizen from Bukan, named Sardar Mohammadpour.     According to the Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, a few days ago, a citizen from Bukan named “Sardar Mohammadpour” was arrested by security forces who failed to show a court order.     […]

January 25th, 2021

Four prisoners saved from execution, three in Mazandaran and one in Rafsanjan

Breathing in Confinement, January 25, 2021: Four prisoners under execution on murder charges, were saved from the death penalty with the consent of victims’ families.       According to the IRNA news agency, three prisoners in the Cities of Amol, Ghaemshahr and Simorgh, who were sentenced to death for murder, returned to life with […]