Breathing in Confinement: On January 13, 2021, having completed his prison sentence, the political prisoner Latif Hassani, was released from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj. The Revolutionary Court had issued a nine-year prison sentence for the Turkish activist Latif Hassani, on charges of forming an illegal group. And according to Article 134 of the Constitution, […]
Breathing in Confinement: On January 8, 2021, Saeed Masouri, a political prisoner in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, entered his 21st year of imprisonment throughout which, he had been denied his basic rights including the right to leave.
Breathing in Confinement, January 8, 2021: Twenty years ago, on January 8, 2001, Gholamhossein Kalbi was arrested in the City of Dezful.
Breathing in Confinement, December 31, 2020: Heiman Mostafaei, a political prisoner sentenced to death in Sanandaj, was transferred to solitary confinement for execution. The political prisoner had received a sentence of 25 years in prison on a charge of “membership in an opposition party” as well as a death sentence for “participating in the murder […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 30, 2020: Arash Ganji, translator, and secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers Association, was sentenced by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to 11 years in prison. The verdict was notified to his lawyer on Wednesday, December 30.
Breathing in Confinement, December 28, 2020: The death sentence of a woman from the City of Qorveh, who in 2015, had been sentenced to death for murder, was carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison.
Breathing in Confinement: On Friday, December 25, 2020, two political prisoners, Hamid Manafi and Afshin Shahsavari, were beaten by Evin Prison guards and as a result, one of Hamid’s Manafi’s fingers was dislocated and Afshin Shahsavari’s scalp was broken. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 26, 2020: There is no information available on the fate of a Baluch citizen who was arrested in April this year.
Breathing in Confinement, December 21, 2020: Twenty three political prisoners are being held in in Rajai Shahr Prison, Hall 10, Ward 4, and 5 others in one of its sub-halls. These political prisoners often have long sentences and are considered the most long serving political prisoners. The ward is constantly under the […]
Breathing in Confinement: October 19, 2020, in protest against being forced to wear prison uniforms and shackles, Mohammad Amirkhizi, Payam Shakiba, and Majid Asadi, three political prisoners in Evin Prison, refused to appear in the court. So the trial was held in the presence of their lawyers in Branch 29 of the Revolutionary Court, presided […]