22 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – With the Supreme Court’s rejection of Ehsan Faridi’s petition for retrial, the risk of his death sentence being carried out has increased. According to Breathing in Confinement, Mahmoud Behzadi-Rad, Faridi’s new attorney, reported that the retrial petition was filed on Tuesday, 14 October 2025, but— […]
21 October 2025 Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – Ehsan Faridi, a 22-year-old student and political prisoner sentenced to death, who was transferred three days ago to the Tabriz Intelligence Department, has been returned to Tabriz Central Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Faridi […]
21 October 2025 Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – A prisoner has died in Shiraz Prison due to a delay in being transferred to hospital. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, a prisoner died in Shiraz Prison after a delay […]
21 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – On 17 October 2025, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Harsin raided the home of Jahangir Rostami, a retired teacher and cultural activist from the city and the father of political prisoner Ehsan Rostami. After beating him, they arrested Mr Rostami and transferred him […]
21 October 2025 News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – The “Tuesdays Against Executions” hunger strike by political prisoners was held for its ninety-first week across 52 prisons in the country. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign, initiated by a […]
20 October 2025 News Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – The transfer of Ehsan Faridi, a university student and political prisoner sentenced to death, to the Tabriz Intelligence Office has heightened concerns about possible coercion and violations of his human rights. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in […]
18 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Standing up to the execution machinery binds society together. On the sixth day of the hunger strike by prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, a group of political prisoners at Ghezel Hesar issued a statement supporting and expressing solidarity with the striking inmates. […]
17 October 2025News group: Executions – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Death-row prisoners held in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison have entered the fourth day of a hunger strike against executions, amid threats from officials including the Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran. According to Breathing in Confinement, 1,500 prisoners in Unit 2 have […]
16 October 2025News Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – Eight citizens and political activists from Javanrud and Sarpol-e Zahab have been summoned to the Enforcement of Judgments office of the Kermanshah judiciary to begin serving their prison terms. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, those summoned […]
14 October 2025News Category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – As part of the growing wave of protests against the unprecedented surge in executions across Iran, on Tuesday the prisoners of Ward 3 of Ghezel Hesar Prison joined those in Ward 2 in a hunger strike, declaring their solidarity with their fellow inmates. This protest coincides […]