Breathing in Confinement

Prisoners
December 21st, 2021

Hunger strike of 47 political prisoners in Urmia Prison is ongoing

  20-December-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Since Sunday, December 12, forty-seven political prisoners in Urmia Prison have been on hunger strike. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, since Sunday, December 12, 47 political prisoners in Urmia Prison have been on a hunger strike. The hunger […]

December 17th, 2021

Roozbeh Piri receives a sentence of 6 years in prison

15-December-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression -Breathing in Confinement: The civil activist, journalist and translator, Roozbeh Piri, living in Tabriz, was sentenced to 6 years in prison by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Tabriz. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Branch 3 of the Revolutionary […]

December 17th, 2021

Babak Kiomarsi receives a two-year prison sentence

16-December-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Babak Kiomarsi, a civil activist living in Jolfa, was sentenced to two years in prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of Tabriz, headed by Judge Fatah Nejad, sentenced […]

December 17th, 2021

Sajjad Shokri released from Evin Prison

16-December-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the labor activist, Sajjad Shokri, was released on parole from Evin Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the labor activist, Sajjad Shokri, was released on parole from Evin Prison. […]

December 9th, 2021

The student activist Leila Hosseinzadeh, arrested in Shiraz

8-December-2021 Newsgroups: Women – Prisoners – Repression –   Breathing in Confinement: Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist and former political prisoner, was arrested in Shiraz.   According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist and former political prisoner, was arrested on December 7, […]

December 6th, 2021

Meysam Kazemi arrested in Behbahan

4-December-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Meysam Kazemi, a civil activist from Behbahan, who had been summoned to Branch 4 of the Revolutionary Court in Behbahan, on Saturday, December 4, was arrested and transferred to prison. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, after appearing in […]

December 2nd, 2021

Arash Johari’s mother seeks for help

1-December-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The family of Arash Johari, a labor activist, reported that about two months ago, Mr. Al-Ghaazi Mehr, the then Tehran Prosecutor, in a metting with some political prisoners, including Mr. Johari, in Evin Prison, promised Arash that his leave would be approved and told him to ask his […]

December 1st, 2021

Retired teacher Nosrat Beheshti released on bail

1-December-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Nosrat Beheshti, a retired teacher and political activist, was released from Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, on bail of one billion Tomans. Ms. Beheshti had been arrested on August 4, 2021. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]

November 25th, 2021

A report on the violations of human rights in Iran in the past one month (October 20 – November 20, 2021)

23-November-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Over the past one month, systematic violations of human rights in Iran have continued. Execution, death sentence, arrest, imprisonment, and flogging were examples of human rights violations committed by the authorities of the Islamic Republic. The government’s failure in providing Covid-19 vaccine […]

November 25th, 2021

Rajai Shahr Prison; Abolhassan Montazer is in critical condition while his forensic file is missing

  24-November-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Abolhassan Montazer, a political prisoner in Rajai Shahr Prison, is being held in critical condition with no medical care. He suffers from several incurable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, bone lesion in his spine, as well as a skin disease named psoriasis. However, his forensic record, […]