Breathing in Confinement: The death sentences for three detainees of November 2019 uprising, Mohammad Rajabi, Amir Hossein Moradi, and Saeed Tamjidi have been upheld by the Supreme Court. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the lawyers of these detainees announced that their clients’ death sentences […]
Breathing in Confinement, July 1, 2020: In the first six months of 2020, at least 114 people have been executed in various prisons in Iran. Islamic Republic authorities have been executing the prisoners, while Iran has been involved in Covid-19 crisis since more than four months. With the outbreak of corona-virus infection in the country, and the spread of the disease in most prisons, the lives of prisoners are in serious danger. In […]
Breathing in Confinement: At dawn on Monday, June 29, 2020, the death sentence was carried out on a prisoner at Isfahan Prison. He had previously been arrested on charges of murder and was later sentenced to death.
Breathing in Confinement: Frank Jamshidi, a civil and environmental activist and a member of the Kurdistan Green Association, was arrested on Sunday, June 28,2020, at her home in Sanandaj. She was then taken to an unknown location. Security forces searched Ms. Jamshidi’s home and confiscated some of her personal belongings, including a computer, cell phone, […]
Breathing in Confinement: The death sentence of a prisoner who had previously been arrested on charges of murder was carried out on the morning of April 18, 2020, in Khorramabad Central Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: Zeinab Jalalian and Soheila Hijab went on a hunger strike to protest the poor conditions in Qarchak Prison, and requesting for transfer.
Breathing in Confinement: Alireza Nouri, a poet, writer and member of the Iranian Writers Association, receiving a summon to serve his two-year sentence, was arrested on June 23, on his visit to Branch 5 of Isfahan Court and was transferred to Isfahan Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner sentenced to death on charges of murder, was executed in Noor Prison on June 16, 2020. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to death in 2015 for killing an environment protector in the forests […]
Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, June 15, 2020, Iraj Hatami, a security prisoner in Rajai Shahr Prison, having symptoms of Coronavirus infection such as; fever and chills, severe headache, muscle pain and shortness of breath, visited a doctor at Prison’s Medical Center. Hatami after being diagnosed with Covid-19 was sent on leave.
Breathing in Confinement: Ali Younesi, a computer engineering student at Sharif University of Technology, and a gold medalist in the International Astronomy Olympiad has captured Covid-19 in Ward 209 at Evin Prison.