Breathing in Confinement

executions
January 15th, 2021

After serving 24 years in prison, two prisoners saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, January 15, 2021: Two prisoners, under execution for 24 years in Alamut Prison on charges of murder, were saved from the gallows with the consent of victim’s family.

January 5th, 2021

Execution of three prisoners in Zahedan

  Breathing in Confinement, January5, 2021: At dawn on Sunday, January 3, 2021, three prisoners were executed in Zahedan Prison. Two of them were executed while a day before their execution, their request for retrial had been registered.     According to ISNA news agency, on the morning of Sunday, January 3, 2021, three prisoners […]

January 5th, 2021

Two prisoners in Khorramshahr and Tehran saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, January5, 2021: Being pardoned by the victims’ families, two prisoners in Khorramshahr and Tehran who were under execution on charge of murder, were saved from the death penalty.

January 5th, 2021

A prisoner in Khodaafarin, saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, January5, 2021: Being pardoned by the victim’s family, a prisoner in the City of Khodaafarin , who was sentenced to death for murder, was saved from death penalty.

December 31st, 2020

To serve his death sentence, a political prisoner in Sanandaj prison, transferred to solitary confinement

Breathing in Confinement, December 31, 2020: Heiman Mostafaei, a political prisoner sentenced to death in Sanandaj, was transferred to solitary confinement for execution. The political prisoner had received a sentence of 25 years in prison on a charge of “membership in an opposition party” as well as a death sentence for “participating in the murder […]

December 30th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Sanandaj

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner from Sarvabad who had been sentenced to death for murder was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison.

December 30th, 2020

Execution of a female prisoner in Sanandaj prison

Breathing in Confinement, December 28, 2020: The death sentence of a woman from the City of Qorveh, who in 2015, had been sentenced to death for murder, was carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison.

December 26th, 2020

Execution of the political prisoner, Abdul Hamid Mirblouch Zehi in Zahedan Prison

Breathing in Confinement, December 26, 2020: Mostafa Nili, the lawyer of political prisoner Abdolhamid Mirblouch Zehi, Tweeted that his client had been executed in Zahedan Prison.

December 25th, 2020

Two prisoners in Zanjan saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement, December 25, 2020: Two prisoners in Zanjan Prison, who were sentenced to death for murder, returned to life with the consent of the victim’s family.

December 21st, 2020

Execution of a Baluch prisoner in Zahedan Central Prison

Breathing in Confinement, December 21, 2020: After spending eight years in death row, a Baloch prisoner was executed in Zahedan Central Prison.     According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on December 20, 2020, a Baloch prisoner named “Abdolbaset Khasht”, the son of Pir Mohammad from the village of Banest in the city of Konarak, […]