Breathing in Confinement

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January 8th, 2021

A report on the situation of political prisoner, Gholam Hossein Kalbi in his 21st year of imprisonment without a day leave

Breathing in Confinement, January 8, 2021: Twenty years ago, on January 8, 2001, Gholamhossein Kalbi was arrested in the City of Dezful.

January 6th, 2021

Suicide of a child laborer who had no dreams

Breathing in Confinement, January 6, 2021: Reza Fiuji, a child laborer, took his life by suicide at the age of eighteen.

January 5th, 2021

Execution of three prisoners in Zahedan

  Breathing in Confinement, January5, 2021: At dawn on Sunday, January 3, 2021, three prisoners were executed in Zahedan Prison. Two of them were executed while a day before their execution, their request for retrial had been registered.     According to ISNA news agency, on the morning of Sunday, January 3, 2021, three prisoners […]

January 5th, 2021

Two prisoners in Khorramshahr and Tehran saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, January5, 2021: Being pardoned by the victims’ families, two prisoners in Khorramshahr and Tehran who were under execution on charge of murder, were saved from the death penalty.

January 5th, 2021

A prisoner in Khodaafarin, saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, January5, 2021: Being pardoned by the victim’s family, a prisoner in the City of Khodaafarin , who was sentenced to death for murder, was saved from death penalty.

December 31st, 2020

Execution of a juvenile inmate in Lakan Prison in Rasht

Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, December 31, 2020, after 13 years in prison, Mohammad Hassan Rezaei, who was only 16 at the time of the alleged crime in 2007, was executed in Lakan Prison in Rasht.

December 31st, 2020

To serve his death sentence, a political prisoner in Sanandaj prison, transferred to solitary confinement

Breathing in Confinement, December 31, 2020: Heiman Mostafaei, a political prisoner sentenced to death in Sanandaj, was transferred to solitary confinement for execution. The political prisoner had received a sentence of 25 years in prison on a charge of “membership in an opposition party” as well as a death sentence for “participating in the murder […]

December 30th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Sanandaj

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner from Sarvabad who had been sentenced to death for murder was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison.

December 30th, 2020

A sentence of ten years in prison for Arash Ganji

Breathing in Confinement, December 30, 2020: Arash Ganji, translator, and secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers Association, was sentenced by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to 11 years in prison. The verdict was notified to his lawyer on Wednesday, December 30.

December 30th, 2020

Security agents in Saravan, arrest two Baloch Sunni Religion Students

Breathing in Confinement, December 30, 2020: Security forces arrested two Baloch Sunni Religion Students in Saravan.