Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: Only two days after the execution of one of the accused prisoners in the case of Sadegh Barmaki’s murder in Mahabad, the other accused prisoner also was executed on December 9, 2020.
Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of December 7, 2020, a young prisoner who had previously been sentenced to death on the charge of murder, was hanged in Mahabad Prison.
Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: Being pardoned by his family, a child prisoner in Sanandaj, who had been imprisoned since September 2017, on a charge of murdering his father, was saved from the death penalty.
Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: An under execution sentence prisoner, claimed that his brother and his friend also had participated in the murder. And this, caused both of them to be sentenced to death.
Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: Among the three prisoners who since 2013, have been under execution sentence on charge of killing a man named Ramin, one escaped the death penalty with the consent of victim’s family.
Breathing in Confinement, December 6, 2020: Behrouz Sohrabi, a prisoner accused of murder, is in imminent risk of execution because of being unable to pay a ransom.
Breathing in Confinement: On December 1, 2020, the lawyer of Ahmad Reza Jalali, the Iranian-Swedish, physician, and researcher, imprisoned in Evin, was informed that her client would be transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj at 5:00 PM Iranian time. Judicial officials said the reason for the transfer was the execution of this dual-national prisoner.
Breathing in Confinement, November 30, 2020: A young man, under execution sentence, on a charge of murder during a quarrel, was saved from the death penalty with the consent of the victim’s family.
Breathing in Confinement, November 29, 2020: Three prisoners who on charges of murder, were awaiting execution in Semnan Prison, were saved from the death penalty with the consent of the victims’ families.
Breathing in Confinement, November 26, 2020: In reaction to the transfer of Ahmad Reza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish physician, and crisis management researcher, to solitary confinement, Amnesty International called for his death sentence to be immediately halted.