Breathing in Confinement

executions
December 9th, 2020

Execution of a young prisoner in Miandoab

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.

December 8th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Mahabad prison

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.

December 6th, 2020

A child prisoner saved from execution

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.

December 6th, 2020

The claim of an under execution sentence prisoner, makes two more people being sentenced to death

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.

December 6th, 2020

One of the three under execution sentence prisoners in Tehran, saved from death penalty

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.

December 6th, 2020

Being unable to pay ransom (blood money), Behrouz Sohrabi is in risk of imminent execution

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.

December 2nd, 2020

Transfer of Ahmad Reza Jalali to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj for execution

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.

December 1st, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in exchange for giving an Olympic medal to the victim’s brother

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.

November 30th, 2020

Three prisoners in Semnan saved from execution

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.

November 26th, 2020

Call for Ahmad Reza Jalali’s death sentence to be immediately halted

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.