Breathing in Confinement, December 7, 2020: A prisoner in Shiraz, who was under the execution sentence on charge of murder, was saved from the death penalty after being pardoned by the victims family.
Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: A group of UN human rights experts, in an unprecedented act, have warned the Iranian government that past and ongoing human rights violations related to prison massacres in 1988 may amount to crimes against humanity and that they will call for an international investigation if these violations persist.
Breathing in Confinement, December 9, 2020: A prisoner named Saeid, who was said to have been released, is in imminent danger of execution. Rokna News Agency, today, December 9, 2020, published an interview conducted with a prisoner named Saeed. Saeid who was imprisoned on charge of murder, is accused of killing another prisoner […]
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.