Breathing in Confinement

executions
November 12th, 2020

A prisoner in Greater Tehran Prison saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner who had been sentenced to retaliation for killing his fellow inmate in Greater Tehran Prison was saved from the death penalty by paying a ransom to and obtaining consent from the victim’s family.

November 8th, 2020

Two prisoners saved from execution in Tabriz and Ilam

Breathing in Confinement: In Tabriz prison, a young man sentenced to death for murder, was saved from the death penalty by the consent of the victim’s family.

November 7th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Ardabil

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a young inmate in Ardabil prison, who had been sentenced to death for murder, returned to life. According to Rokna News Agency, quoting Nasser Atabati, Chief Justice of the City of Ardabil, a 24-year-old man who since 2017, being convicted of murder, was in death row, […]

October 27th, 2020

A prisoner in Tehran saved from execution

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner named Reza, who had been on death row for murder, was saved from the death penalty.

October 19th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Shar-e-Kord

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner who was on death row on a charge of murder was saved from execution.

October 18th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Golestan

Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the victim’s mother, a 20-year-old prisoner in Golestan Province was spared from execution.

October 18th, 2020

Unfair trial, death sentence for a taxi driver

Breathing in Confinement: A taxi driver has been sentenced to death only for having with him the cell phone of a murder victim. According to the Rokna news agency, on January 31, 2017, the body of a 30-year-old man named Mohammad, was discovered on a roadside in Shahriar. During the investigation, the police found that […]

October 17th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Ghayen on charges of drug trafficking, despite the abolition of the death penalty for these convicts

Breathing in Confinement: A prisoner was executed in Ghayen Prison in South Khorasan, on charges of carrying drugs.   According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, a Baloch citizen named “Mehrshad Brahui” was executed in the County of Ghayen in South Khorasan on charges of carrying drugs.   According to the […]

October 12th, 2020

A prisoner saved from execution in Kerman

  Breathing in Confinement: Being pardoned by the blood owners, a prisoner who thirteen years ago had been sentenced to death for murder, was saved from execution.

October 12th, 2020

Penitentiary Complex in Tehran, a death sentence is upheld for an inmate who killed a rapist prisoner, in defending the victim

Breathing in Confinement: The Supreme Court upheld the retaliation sentence for an inmate who killed a rapist prisoner, to support the young victim.   According to Rokna News Agency, in 2018, in a scuffle in the bathroom of the Penitentiary Complex in Tehran (Greater Tehran Prison), one of the prisoners named Hamid, was seriously injured […]