Breathing in Confinement

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October 17th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Ghayen on charges of drug trafficking, despite the abolition of the death penalty for these convicts

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner was executed in Ghayen Prison in South Khorasan, on charges of carrying drugs.   According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, a Baloch citizen named “Mehrshad Brahui” was executed in the County of Ghayen in South Khorasan on charges of carrying drugs.   According to the […]

October 12th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Kerman

  Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner who thirteen years ago had been sentenced to death for murder, was saved from execution.

October 12th, 2020

Penitentiary Complex in Tehran, a death sentence is upheld for an inmate who killed a rapist prisoner, in defending the victim

Breathing in Confinement: The Supreme Court upheld the retaliation sentence for an inmate who killed a rapist prisoner, to support the young victim.   According to Rokna News Agency, in 2018, in a scuffle in the bathroom of the Penitentiary Complex in Tehran (Greater Tehran Prison), one of the prisoners named Hamid, was seriously injured […]

October 12th, 2020

A young woman is executed in Mashhad prison for killing her two children in the hopelessness of poverty

  Breathing in Confinement: On October 11, 2020, a woman who in loneliness and poverty, had killed her two children, aged 4 and 8, was executed in Mashhad prison.   According to Rokna News Agency, “Razieh”, an unfortunate and lonely woman, under the economic and social pressures, after being separated from her second husband, Killed […]

October 12th, 2020

To serve their jail sentences, Ashraf Nafari and Alieh Motalebzadeh are arrested and transferred to Evin Prison

  Breathing in Confinement: On October 12, 2020, after appearing at Evin Prison Prosecutor’s Office, Ashraf Nafari, a mathematics student at Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran, and Alieh Motalebzadeh, a photographer and women’s rights activist, were arrested and transferred to Evin Prison.   On April 26, 2020, Ms. Nafri, a student at Khajeh Nasir University, […]

October 9th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Hamedan

Breathing in Confinement: After being pardoned by the victim’s family, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder, escaped the death penalty.

October 9th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Golestan province

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner sentenced to retaliation for murder, escaped the death penalty.

October 9th, 2020

A prisoner spared from execution in Tabriz

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder was saved from death.

October 9th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Sari

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner who was sentenced to death for murder, returned to life with the consent of the victim’s family.

October 6th, 2020

Unlawful transfer of Elham Barmaki from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin

Breathing in Confinement: On October 5, 2020, Elham Barmaki was transferred from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. The transfer happened despite the fact that her parole had been approved, and therefore, she should have already been released.