Breathing in Confinement

executions
July 21st, 2020

Execution of two prisoners in Isfahan prison

Breathing in Confinement: Two Baluch citizens who had previously been arrested and sentenced to death on drug charges were executed in Isfahan Prison on Saturday, July 11, 2020.

July 15th, 2020

Four prisoners in South Khorasan, Hormozgan, Junqan and Mehriz prison in Yazd, released from execution

Breathing in Confinement: Four prisoners, sentenced to death for murder in different prisons, were saved from execution after being pardoned by the blood owners.

July 14th, 2020

Execution of two Kurdish political prisoners in Urmia prison

Breathing in Confinement: Two Kurdish political prisoners, Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh Abdullah, were executed in Urmia Prison on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, at 1:00 AM. The two political prisoners had been transferred to solitary confinement yesterday.

July 14th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner sentenced to death for murder was executed on Sunday, July 12, 2020, in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah.

July 11th, 2020

Supreme Court upholds death sentences for three detainees of the November uprising

Breathing in Confinement: The death sentences for three detainees of November 2019 uprising, Mohammad Rajabi, Amir Hossein Moradi, and Saeed Tamjidi have been upheld by the Supreme Court.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the lawyers of these detainees announced that their clients’ death sentences […]

July 6th, 2020

In the first 6 months of 2020, concurrently with the escalating Covid-19 crisis, at least 114 death sentences have been carried out in Iran

Breathing in Confinement, July 1, 2020: In the first six months of 2020, at least 114 people have been executed in various prisons in Iran. Islamic Republic authorities have been executing the prisoners, while Iran has been involved in Covid-19 crisis since more than four months. With the outbreak of corona-virus infection in the country, and the spread of the disease in most prisons, the lives of prisoners are in serious danger. In […]

July 1st, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Isfahan prison

Breathing in Confinement: At dawn on Monday, June 29, 2020, the death sentence was carried out on a prisoner at Isfahan Prison. He had previously been arrested on charges of murder and was later sentenced to death.

June 22nd, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Noor prison

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner sentenced to death on charges of murder, was executed in Noor Prison on June 16, 2020. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to death in 2015 for killing an environment protector in the forests […]

June 12th, 2020

Despite the efforts of civil society activists to obtain the consent of blood owners, a prisoner was executed in Naqadeh prison

Breathing in Confinement: On the morning of Wednesday, June 10, 2020, a death sentence was carried out in Naqadeh Prison. The executed prisoner had been arrested four years ago on charges of murder and was later sentenced to death,

June 12th, 2020

Without having been sentenced to death, a Baloch inmate, was executed in Birjand prison

Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, June 6, 2020, a Baloch man who had previously been sentenced to prison on drug charges, was executed in Birjand Prison without even having a death sentence.