29-June-2022 Newsgroup: Execution – Ethnic Minorities – Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of Wednesday, June 29, 2022, Shaker Behrouz, a political prisoner sentenced to death in Urmia Prison, was transferred to an unknown location. On June 25, 2022, in Urmia Prison, he was notified that his death sentence had been finalized. According […]
June 8, 2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Ethnic Minorities – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, Jafar Ismailzadeh, a civil activist living in Tabriz, was arrested after security agents raided his home. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Tuesday, June […]
June 3, 2022 Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: In recent days, Hojjat Esmatzadeh, a civil activist living in Naghadeh, was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison as well as 50 lashes. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the civil […]
May 25, 2022 Newsgroup: Execution – Ethnic Minorities – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: On Sunday, May 21, a prisoner sentenced to death on drug charges was executed in Zahedan Prison. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner was executed for drug-related charges in Zahedan […]
21-May-2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Ethnic Minorities – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: On May 19, 2022, Akbar Jahani, a poet and civil activist from Tabriz, was arrested by security forces. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, concurrently with the football match between the teams […]
March 28, 2022 Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Yousef Salahshour, an activist living in Tabriz, was sentenced by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Tabriz to 1 year in prison and supplementary punishments of 2 years ban on leaving the country as well as 2 years ban on activities […]
23-January-2022 Newsgroups: Executions – Ethnic Minorities – Women – Prisoners – Repression – Workers and Guilds – Teachers – Breathing in Confinement: In the past one month, while the repression intensified in Iran, the number of executions, detentions, and prison sentences increased. The widespread uprisings by various groups of people in protest of the poor […]
16-January-2022 Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Breathing in Confinement: January 15, 2022, marks the fourth anniversary of the imprisonment of Abbas Lesani, a civil activist from Azerbaijan-Iran, imprisoned in Ardabil Prison. On January 15, 2019, after appearing in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court in Tabriz, Abbas Lesani was arrested and transferred to Ardabil Prison. He […]
7- January – 2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Ethnic Minorities – Breathing in Confinement: Afshar Moheb, an Azeri activist in Ardabil Prison, ended his hunger strike on Wednesday, January 5th. He had gone on hunger strike on Sunday, January 2, in protest of the case investigator’s refusal to accept his bail and temporary release. […]
2-January-2022 Newsgroup: Ethnic Minorities – Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: After her request for retrial was rejected by the Supreme Court, Zahra Mohammadi, a civil activist and Kurdish language teacher, was summoned to the Sentence Implementation Unit of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj. Zahra Mohammadi had been sentenced by Sanandaj Court to […]