Breathing in Confinement

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September 4th, 2020

Execution of at least three prisoners in Isfahan prison

Breathing in Confinement: At least three prisoners who in separate cases had previously been sentenced to death were executed in the end of July and the beginning of August 2020 in Isfahan Central Prison.

September 4th, 2020

The fired journalist Mohammad Mosaed is sentenced to prison as well as being banned from journalism

Breathing in Confinement: Mohammad Mosaed, a fired journalist, was sentenced to prison plus being banned from journalism by the Revolutionary Court.

September 1st, 2020

Catching Coronavirus infection and being transferred to Rajai Shahr prison; Behnam Moosivand’s concerning situation in prison

Shortly after being admitted to Evin Prison Medical Centre with the diagnosis of Covid-19, Behnam Moosivand, a political prisoner in Ward 8 of Evin Prison, was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Behnam Moosivand, having symptoms of the Corona-virus infection, was […]

August 30th, 2020

Shiraz protests; issuance and upholding two times execution for a wrestler as well as imprisonment and flogging for two of his brothers

Breathing in Confinement: Navid, Vahid, and Habib Afkari Sangari, three brothers who had been arrested in the City of Shiraz at the time of the nationwide protests in August 2018, were tried in both the Revolutionary Court and the Criminal Court in Shiraz. According to the verdicts, Navid Afkari has sentenced to death twice plus […]

August 29th, 2020

Right to housing; Security forces attack the people of Abolfazl village in Ahvaz

Breathing in Confinement: Following a complaint filed against the residents by Bonyad-e Mostazafan (Foundation of the Oppressed), and after the law enforcement agents along with the municipality staffs were deployed to”Hazrat Abolfazl” village in Ahvaz, to demolish the houses, the residents protested the decision and fought with the police.   “In this clash, the unarmed […]

August 29th, 2020

A woman’s ex-husband kills her in the village of Sepidar in Yasuj

Breathing in Confinement: While on leave from prison, an inmate killed his ex-wife and afterward,   went to the police station to confess. He was in prison on a charge of unpaid dowry (the amount of money that at the time of marriage, is mutually agreed to be paid or being committed to be paid by […]

August 23rd, 2020

Report on the execution of three prisoners, including a female prisoner in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad

Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, August 18, 2020, four prisoners who had previously been sentenced to death on murder charges, were executed in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. And at least one woman was among those executed.

August 10th, 2020

Detention of Fatemeh Davand; Amnesty International, condemning the detention of Fatemeh Davand, called for her release

Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, August 6, 2020, to serve her 3 years and 9 months sentence, for participating in the November 2019 protests, Fatemeh Davand was arrested and transferred to Urmia Prison.

August 9th, 2020

Simultaneous arrest of five civil activists by security forces in Saqqez

Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, security forces simultaneously arrested five Kurdish civil activists from Saqqez, named: Armia Ranjbari, Ali Ghaderi, Heiman Karimi, Hiva, and Varia Amini. They were all transferred them to an unknown location. According to Kurdpa, These before being arrested, their homes were searched and their personal belongings were confiscated. […]

August 9th, 2020

Execution of at least two prisoners in Langrood Prison in Qom

Breathing in Confinement: The death sentences of two prisoners who had previously been arrested and sentenced to death on charges of drug trafficking were carried out on Wednesday, August 5, 2020, in Langrood Prison in Qom.