Breathing in Confinement

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December 9th, 2020

A prisoner in Shiraz, saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, December 7, 2020: A prisoner in Shiraz, who was under the execution sentence on charge of murder, was saved from the death penalty after being pardoned by the victims family.

December 9th, 2020

Security forces in Salmas shot a Kulbar to death

  Breathing in Confinement, December 8, 2020: Revolutionary Guards, shot a Kulbar to death in the border heights of the City of Salmas. According to Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, on Sunday, December 6, 2020, a Kulbar lost his life in the border heights of the City of Salmas after being shot by […]

December 9th, 2020

UN human rights experts warn the Iranian government about the massacre of prisoners in the summer of 1988

Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: A group of UN human rights experts, in an unprecedented act, have warned the Iranian government that past and ongoing human rights violations related to prison massacres in 1988 may amount to crimes against humanity and that they will call for an international investigation if these violations persist.

December 9th, 2020

Risk of imminent execution of a prisoner who was said to have been released

Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: A prisoner named Saeid, who was said to have been released, is in imminent danger of execution.     Rokna News Agency, today, December 9, 2020, published an interview conducted with a prisoner named Saeed. Saeid who was imprisoned on charge of murder, is accused of killing another prisoner […]

December 9th, 2020

Saba Kordafshari is deported from Evin to Qarchak Prison in Varamin

Breathing in Confinement: December 9, 2020, as per the order of the prosecutor, Saba Kordafshari, a civil activist, was deported from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. Rahela Ahmadi, Saba’s mother, asked the prison officials for transferting her along with her daughter. She however, was told that the prosecutor has ordered that Saba should […]

December 9th, 2020

Execution of a young prisoner in Miandoab

Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: Only two days after the execution of one of the accused prisoners in the case of Sadegh Barmaki’s murder in Mahabad, the other accused prisoner also was executed on December 9, 2020.

December 8th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Mahabad prison

Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of December 7, 2020, a young prisoner who had previously been sentenced to death on the charge of murder, was hanged in Mahabad Prison.

December 6th, 2020

A child prisoner saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: Being pardoned by his family, a child prisoner in Sanandaj, who had been imprisoned since September 2017, on a charge of murdering his father, was saved from the death penalty.

December 6th, 2020

The claim of an under execution sentence prisoner, makes two more people being sentenced to death

Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: An under execution sentence prisoner, claimed that his brother and his friend also had participated in the murder. And this, caused both of them to be sentenced to death.

December 6th, 2020

One of the three under execution sentence prisoners in Tehran, saved from death penalty

Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: Among the three prisoners who since 2013, have been under execution sentence on charge of killing a man named Ramin, one escaped the death penalty with the consent of victim’s family.