Thirty one women prisoners and political defendants are currently being held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. This is a High Security Ward with at least 30 CCTV by which the prisoners are under constant control. In terms of medical care, hospital referrals, food and hygiene, especially following the outbreak of Covid-19, the ward’s […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 14, 2020: Kamil Ahmadi, a writer, anthropologist and social problem researcher in Tehran, was sentenced to eight years in prison. According to the Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Kamil Ahmadi, on charges of “collaborating with a hostile government,” was sentenced to eight years in prison by […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 8, 2020: On December 7, Keyvan Samimi, the editor-in-chief of Iran-e Farda magazine, who was among those detained on International Workers’ Day, was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison after appearing in Sentence Implementation Unit of Evin Court.
Breathing in Confinement: December 9, 2020, as per the order of the prosecutor, Saba Kordafshari, a civil activist, was deported from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. Rahela Ahmadi, Saba’s mother, asked the prison officials for transferting her along with her daughter. She however, was told that the prosecutor has ordered that Saba should […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 2, 2020: Fouad Enayati, a civil activist from Sanandaj, was sentenced to two years suspended imprisonment by the Court of Appeals in Kurdistan. According to the Kurdistan Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Fouad Enayati, a civil activist from Sanandaj, was sentenced to two years suspended imprisonment by the Court […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 1, 2020: Five Kurdish citizens from Urmia, imprisoned in the city’s central prison for one year, were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.
Breathing in Confinement, November 26, 2020: In reaction to the transfer of Ahmad Reza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish physician, and crisis management researcher, to solitary confinement, Amnesty International called for his death sentence to be immediately halted.
Breathing in Confinement, November 25, 2020: On Wednesday, November 25, after an inmate caught himself on fire, hundreds of prisoners rioted in front of the guardian office in Urmia Prison. Soon after that, Special Forces entered the prison and beat the prisoners.
Breathing in Confinement: After obtaining the consent of the victim’s families, two prisoners in Zahedan and Karaj prisons, sentenced to death on murder charges, saved from execution.
Breathing in Confinement, November 24, 2020: Ahmad Reza Jalali, a physician, university researcher and a dual-national prisoner sentenced to death, announced on a phone call on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, that he had been transferred to solitary confinement to serve his death sentence.