News Category: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Executions – Religious Minorities – Ethnic Minorities – Arrests – Retirees According to the Statistical Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, during the second month of Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidency, there has been an unprecedented surge in executions, with at least 157 prisoners executed, breaking the […]
October 14, 2024 News Category: Freedom of Expression – Women – Prisoners Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, October 12, 2024, despite completing her 15-year sentence, political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared, held in Semnan Prison, was prevented from being released. Her new two-year sentence, imposed due to cases brought against her during her imprisonment, has been […]
September 24, 2024 News Group: Freedom of Speech – Women – Repression Breathing in Confinement:: Mahboubeh Ramazani and Rahimeh Yousefzadeh, justice seeking mothers of the victims of the November 2019 uprising, have been sentenced to prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Mahboubeh Ramazani, mother […]
26 August 2024 News Categories: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Executions – Religious Minorities – Ethnic Minorities – Pensioners – Students – Women – Suppression – 2022 Uprising – Workers and Unions Breathing in Confinement: According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at least 126 prisoners were executed during […]
10-August-2024 News Group: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Detention – Women – Prisoners Breathing in Confinement: Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, two university students imprisoned in Evin Prison, issued a statement and announcing a hunger strike on Saturday, 10th August, in protest of Reza Rasai’s execution and in solidarity with the women prisoners […]
August 1, 2024 News Group: Freedom of Speech, Protests, Execution, Religious Minorities, Ethnic Minorities, Sexual Minorities, Arrests, Pensioners, Women, Prisoners, Suppression, Sukhtbars, Uprising 2022, Workers and Unions, Children. Breathing in Confinement: Human rights violations in Iran continued in July. This month, the judicial authorities paused executions for two weeks because of the early presidential elections. […]
May 28, 2024 News Categories: Freedom of Speech – Protests – Executions – Religious Minorities – Sexual Minorities – Women – Prisoners – Repression – Workers and Guilds – Kulbar – Breathing in Confinement Summary: – Execution of at least 126 prisoners – Issuance of death sentences for 9 prisoners and […]
March 29, 2024 News Group: Freedom of Expression – Teachers – Breathing in Confinement: Karim Bastanji, a teacher and trade union activist, was sentenced by the Revolutionary Court and the Criminal Court of Urmia to 3 months of disciplinary imprisonment and a fine of 15 million tomans, as well as confiscation of his mobile […]
March 3, 2024 News Group: Freedom of Speech – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Mehrdad Bakhtiari, the uncle of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the protesters killed in the November 2019 uprising, has been sentenced by the Karaj Revolutionary Court to six years of imprisonment, two years of travel ban, and two years of exile […]
March 2, 2024 News Group: Freedom of Speech – Breathing in Confinement: Shervin Hajipour, an Iranian singer, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to three years and eight months of imprisonment, two years of ban on leaving the country, and other penalties. According to “Breathing in Confinement,” the news outlet of the Prisoners’ […]