Breathing in Confinement

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December 14th, 2020

Kamil Ahmadi sentenced to 8 years in prison

  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 […]

December 14th, 2020

The intelligence agents in the City of Rask, run over a Baloch woman

  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” […]

December 14th, 2020

Suicide of a fired worker of Haft Tappeh Factory

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, […]

December 14th, 2020

Execution of two prisoners in Esfarayen

  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  

December 9th, 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 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 […]

December 9th, 2020

To serve his sentence, Keyvan Samimi arrested and transferred to Evin Prison

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.

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 […]