Breathing in Confinement

executions
October 27th, 2020

A prisoner in Tehran saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner named Reza, who had been on death row for murder, was saved from the death penalty.

October 19th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Shar-e-Kord

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner who was on death row on a charge of murder was saved from execution.

October 18th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Golestan

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the victim’s mother, a 20-year-old prisoner in Golestan Province was spared from execution.

October 18th, 2020

Unfair trial, death sentence for a taxi driver

Breathing in Confinement: A taxi driver has been sentenced to death only for having with him the cell phone of a murder victim. According to the Rokna news agency, on January 31, 2017, the body of a 30-year-old man named Mohammad, was discovered on a roadside in Shahriar. During the investigation, the police found that […]

October 17th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Ghayen on charges of drug trafficking, despite the abolition of the death penalty for these convicts

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner was executed in Ghayen Prison in South Khorasan, on charges of carrying drugs.   According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, a Baloch citizen named “Mehrshad Brahui” was executed in the County of Ghayen in South Khorasan on charges of carrying drugs.   According to the […]

October 12th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Kerman

  Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner who thirteen years ago had been sentenced to death for murder, was saved from execution.

October 12th, 2020

Penitentiary Complex in Tehran, a death sentence is upheld for an inmate who killed a rapist prisoner, in defending the victim

Breathing in Confinement: The Supreme Court upheld the retaliation sentence for an inmate who killed a rapist prisoner, to support the young victim.   According to Rokna News Agency, in 2018, in a scuffle in the bathroom of the Penitentiary Complex in Tehran (Greater Tehran Prison), one of the prisoners named Hamid, was seriously injured […]

October 12th, 2020

A young woman is executed in Mashhad prison for killing her two children in the hopelessness of poverty

  Breathing in Confinement: On October 11, 2020, a woman who in loneliness and poverty, had killed her two children, aged 4 and 8, was executed in Mashhad prison.   According to Rokna News Agency, “Razieh”, an unfortunate and lonely woman, under the economic and social pressures, after being separated from her second husband, Killed […]

October 9th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Hamedan

Breathing in Confinement: After being pardoned by the victim’s family, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder, escaped the death penalty.

October 9th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Golestan province

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner sentenced to retaliation for murder, escaped the death penalty.