Breathing in Confinement

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February 12th, 2021

After nineteen years behind the bars, a prisoner saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner in Kurdistan province, sentenced to death for murder, was released from execution with the consent of the victim’s family.

January 26th, 2021

Execution of a wrestler in Dezful prison

Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of January 25, a wrestler from the City of Andimeshk, who for five years had been under execution in prison for murder, was executed in Dezful prison this morning disregarding the international protests.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, […]

January 25th, 2021

Four prisoners saved from execution, three in Mazandaran and one in Rafsanjan

Breathing in Confinement, January 25, 2021: Four prisoners under execution on murder charges, were saved from the death penalty with the consent of victims’ families.       According to the IRNA news agency, three prisoners in the Cities of Amol, Ghaemshahr and Simorgh, who were sentenced to death for murder, returned to life with […]

January 24th, 2021

Three prisoners in Golestan, Kermanshah and Hormozgan saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, January 24, 2021: Three prisoners, under execution for murder in Golestan, Kermanshah and Hormozgan prisons, saved from the noose with the consent of victim’s families.     According to the IRNA news agency, a 22-year-old man who three years ago was sentenced to death for the murder of his cousin in Gonbad-e […]

January 21st, 2021

Two prisoners saved from execution in Hamedan and Karaj

Breathing in Confinement, January 21, 2021: Two prisoners, in Hamedan and Karaj, sentenced to death for murder, were saved from death penalty with the consent of victim’s families.   According to Rokna news agency, the prisoner in Hamedan, who five years ago was sentenced to death for murder, retuned to life after obtaining the consent […]

January 21st, 2021

Executions of two Baloch Sunni clerics halted

Breathing in Confinement: Two Baloch clerics who on January 16, had been transferred to solitary confinement for execution, were returned back to the prison’s general ward.   According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, two Sunni Baloch clerics, named “Amanullah Balochi” and “Hafez Abdul Rahim Koohi”, who on Monday, January 16, had been transferred to quarantine […]

January 21st, 2021

Two prisoners saved from execution in Hamedan and Karaj

  Breathing in Confinement, January 21, 2021: Two prisoners, in Hamedan and Karaj, sentenced to death for murder, were saved from death penalty with the consent of victim’s families.   According to Rokna news agency, the prisoner in Hamedan, who five years ago was sentenced to death for murder, retuned to life after obtaining the […]

January 20th, 2021

After being tortured, a Baloch prisoner executed in Zahedan Prison

Breathing in Confinement: On January 19, 2021, a Baloch prisoner named Anwar Aalizehi, was executed in Zahedan Prison.   According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, Anwar had been arrested two years ago on drug charges.   “Being unemployed and having poor living condition, Anwar was transferring drugs, before which he had no criminal record,” said […]

January 18th, 2021

Death of a detainee under torture

  Breathing in Confinement, January 17, 2021: A citizen from the City West Islamabad in Kermanshah province, who had been arrested on charge of murder, died twelve days after falling into a coma as a result of being beaten and tortured by intelligence agents.   According to Hengaw Human Rights Organization, on Friday, January 15, […]

January 16th, 2021

Execution of a Baloch prisoner in Zahedan Central Prison

Breathing in Confinement, January 15, 2021: On Thursday, January 14, a Baloch prisoner was executed in Zahedan Central Prison.