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June 28th, 2021

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: A veteran torturer in Iran becomes president

June 27, 2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression- Prisoners- Execution   Every Iranian with a history of even a day in detention is a victim of torture.   Breathing in Confinement: With the aim of vanishing all types of torture, the UN General Assembly has designated June 26 as the World Day in Support of Victims […]

June 20th, 2021

The main violator of human rights in Iran and the notorious perpetrator of crimes against humanity becomes the new President of Iran

19-June-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution Breathing in Confinement: Ebrahim Raisi, a member of “death delegate” in the massacre of political prisoners in  1988, was announced as the eighth president of the Islamic Republic. As usual, the officials of the Islamic Republic, after manipulating the votes and the statistics of the election, announced that […]

May 23rd, 2021

Monthly report on human rights violations in Iran from April 20 to May 20, 2021

22-May-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Prisoners –   From April 20 to May 20, 2021 Execution of at least 13 prisoners and issuance of 3 death sentences Detention of at least 195 civil, political, and social media activists Sentencing 15 political and ideological activists to 99 years, 8 months and 6 days […]

April 11th, 2021

Two prisoners in Mazandaran saved from execution

11-April-2021 Newsgroup: Execution – Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the victims’ families, two prisoners who had previously been sentenced to death in Mazandaran Prison for murder, were released from prison. According to Mazandaran Province Public Relations of the Justice, two prisoners sentenced to death, were rescued from the gallows after obtaining the consent of […]

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 […]