Breathing in Confinement

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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.

December 6th, 2020

Being unable to pay ransom (blood money), Behrouz Sohrabi is in risk of imminent execution

Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: Behrouz Sohrabi, a prisoner accused of murder, is in imminent risk of execution because of being unable to pay a ransom.

December 2nd, 2020

Two years of suspended imprisonment for Fouad Enayati

Breathing in Confinement, December 2, 2020: Fouad Enayati, a civil activist from Sanandaj, was sentenced to two years suspended imprisonment by the Court of Appeals in Kurdistan.   According to the Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Fouad Enayati, a civil activist from Sanandaj, was sentenced to two years suspended imprisonment by the Court […]

December 2nd, 2020

Detention of a Baluch citizen by security forces in the City of Dashtiari

Breathing in Confinement, December 2, 2020: A Baluch citizen was arrested by security forces in the City of Dashtiari.   According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, a Baloch citizen named “Yaser Hut”, the son of Babu from Polan District in Dashtiari, was arrested by security forces on Thursday, November 25, 2020.   “Yaser was in […]

December 2nd, 2020

A man in Tehran takes his life in a metro station

Breathing in Confinement, December 1, 2020: A 60-year-old man attempted suicide at a metro station in Tehran and unfortunately died.