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.
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.
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 […]
Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner from Sarvabad who had been sentenced to death for murder was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison.
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.
Breathing in Confinement, December 30, 2020: Security forces arrested two Baloch Sunni Religion Students in Saravan.
Breathing in Confinement, December 28, 2020: The death sentence of a woman from the City of Qorveh, who in 2015, had been sentenced to death for murder, was carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: On December 27, 2020, after appearing in Evin court, Shohreh Hosseini, a civil activist who had been detained since November 28, 2020, was transferred to the political women ward of Evin Prison. She is currently being held in Evin’s quarantine ward.
Breathing in Confinement: On Friday, December 25, 2020, two political prisoners, Hamid Manafi and Afshin Shahsavari, were beaten by Evin Prison guards and as a result, one of Hamid’s Manafi’s fingers was dislocated and Afshin Shahsavari’s scalp was broken. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 28, 2020: A sentence of 6 years imprisonment for Ali Azizi, a 19-year-old Turk activist, was verbally notified to his lawyer, Mr. Asghar Mohammadi. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Ali Azizi was sentenced to six years in prison by the Revolutionary […]