Breathing in Confinement

Labor and guilds
February 12th, 2020

More than 41 years in prison and 200 lashes for seven guild activist teachers in North Khorasan

Breathing in Confinement – On charges of “forming an illegal group aimed at disrupting the national security and propaganda against the system,” seven guild activist teachers in North Khorasan convicted of a total of 41 years and 8 months in prison plus 222 lashes and a fine of 3 million toman by Bojnourd Revolutionary and […]

January 5th, 2020

Jafar Ebrahimi was arrested and was transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj

Breathing in Confinement – Concurrently with the 40th day of November protesters’ martyrdom, Jafar Ebrahimi, a teacher and a member of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, was arrested on December 26 in Behesht-e-Sakineh cemetery in Karaj and was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, […]

December 23rd, 2019

Missing 14-year-old Kulbar’s corpse found at Teteh Mountains in Marivan

Breathing in Confinement – After 3 days of searching for a 14-year-old Kulbar (workers who carry goods on their back across the borders),  finally, on Friday, December 20, his body was discovered in the Teteh Border Heights near the County of Marivan. According to Mokrian, the body of  Farhad  Khosravi, a 14-year-old missing Kulbar, was […]

December 23rd, 2019

Five Kulbars were killed or wounded in border areas

Breathing in Confinement – On Tuesday, December 17, two Kulbars (workers who carry goods across the borders on their back) were shot and wounded in Sardasht and Piranshahr border areas. On December 14 also, in Oshnavieh border area, another Kulbar was shot dead by military forces. Earlier, on December 12 and 13, two other Kulbars […]

November 28th, 2019

A Kulbar lost his life the County of Mariwan

Breathing in Confinement- Having a heart attack while carrying heavy items, a Kulbar (workers who carry goods across the borders on their back) died on Tuesday, November 26.

November 17th, 2019

A Kulbar shot dead in the County of Baneh

Breathing in Confinement – On Tuesday, November 12, in the border areas of Baneh, a Kulbar (cross-border porter) was killed by police direct shooting. On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, police shooting killed a Kulbar in the border area of Baneh, County in the Kurdistan Province, Mokrian reported. The Kulbar has been identified as: “Taher Hosseini […]

November 13th, 2019

Overintense security atmosphere in the assembly of the army and state retirees; detention of more than a dozen of them

Breathing in Confinement – This morning, November 12, 2019, in an overintense security atmosphere, a number of retirees were detained in a protest rally of state and army retirees in Baharestan Square in Tehran.

November 13th, 2019

Hamid Reza Rahmati was arrested

Breathing in Confinement – Hamid Reza Rahmati, a member of the Teachers’ Guild Association in Isfahan, was arrested by the police, in front of his house in Shahreza County.

October 31st, 2019

Ishmael Bakhshi released on bail

Breathing in Confinement – Ismail Bakhshi, the representative of the workers at Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Factory, was temporarily released on bail of 750 million Tomans (roughly equal to $580,000) on Wednesday, October 30, 2019.

September 8th, 2016

Ministry of Intelligence Disrupting Shahrokh Zamani’s Anniversary

Breathing in Confinement: Although, after a year of Shahrokh Zamani’s death, the judicial authorities have not given any reason for his death, the Ministry of Intelligence’s agents are trying to prevent his first anniversary. According to the report obtained by “Breathing in Confinement,” the Ministry of Intelligence’s agents with repeated contact with labor and civil […]