Breathing in Confinement, December 15, 2020: Khairat Parvazeh, a 30-year-old citizen of Marivan, was transferred to Marivan Prison on a charge of “collaborating with a Kurdish opposition party.”
Breathing in Confinement, December 15, 202: Security forces arrested two citizens from Urmia on charges of collaboration with one of the Kurdish opposition parties.
Breathing in Confinement, December 16, 2020: On Sunday, December 13, 2020, the head of the Women’s Ward in Qarchak Prison, along with 20 male and female anti-riot guards carrying stun guns and batons, entered Ward 8 of Qarchak Prison, where female political prisoners are being kept. By the order of the head of the […]
Thirty one women prisoners and political defendants are currently being held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. This is a High Security Ward with at least 30 CCTV by which the prisoners are under constant control. In terms of medical care, hospital referrals, food and hygiene, especially following the outbreak of Covid-19, the ward’s […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 14, 2020: Kamil Ahmadi, a writer, anthropologist and social problem researcher in Tehran, was sentenced to eight years in prison. According to the Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Kamil Ahmadi, on charges of “collaborating with a hostile government,” was sentenced to eight years in prison by […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 14, 2020: The intelligence agents in the city of Rask, drove over a Baloch woman and sped off. According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on the morning of December 12, 2020, plainclothes agents ran over a Baloch woman and fled the scene. The woman was identified as “Khadijeh Dahani” […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 14, 2020: Reza Al-Kathir, a fired worker of Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Factory, took his life by suicide. According to Haft Tappeh Workers’ Union, the 24-year-old fired worker, Reza Al-Kathir, in protest of his dismissal from the factory as well as his poverty, deprivation and hardship because of unemployment, […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 14, 2020: Two male prisoners were executed in Esfarayen prison on murder charges. According to Rokna news agency, quoting Nader Nejad, the public prosecutor of Esfarayen, two prisoners were executed in Esfarayen Prison on charge of killing a jewele
Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of December, 7, 2020, a young prisoner who had previously been sentenced to death on charge of murder, was hanged in Mahabad Prison. According to the Young Journalists Club, quoting Aslan Heydari, the Public Prosecutor of the City of Mahabad, one of the accused in the murder […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 8, 2020: On December 7, Keyvan Samimi, the editor-in-chief of Iran-e Farda magazine, who was among those detained on International Workers’ Day, was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison after appearing in Sentence Implementation Unit of Evin Court.