Breathing in Confinement

Prisoners
August 26th, 2025

Transfer of at Least Six Prisoners to Solitary Confinement in Ghezelhesar Prison for Execution

  25 August 2025 News Group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – At least six prisoners who had been arrested on charges related to “drug offences” and sentenced to death were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezelhesar Prison, Karaj, for the implementation of their sentences. According to information obtained by Breathing in Confinement, the news […]

August 21st, 2025

Supreme Court Rejects Second Request for Retrial of Babak Shahbazi

20 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – The ninth chamber of the Supreme Court, presided over by Judge Mazinani, has rejected the second request for retrial of Babak Shahbazi. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Babak Shahbazi’s brother, Keyhan Shahbazi, stated that this was […]

August 19th, 2025

Six Protest Gatherings Held Concurrently with Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike in 49 Prisons

19 August 2025News group: Protests – Pensioners – Prisoners – Workers and Guilds –Breathing in Confinement – Alongside the hunger strike and the eighty-second week of the “Tuesdays Against the Death Penalty” campaign by political prisoners in 49 prisons across the country, families of political prisoners sentenced to death also held a protest gathering to […]

August 19th, 2025

Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign: A Narrative of Resistance Against the Machinery of Execution

19 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – This week, the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign continued in 49 prisons across the country. Now in its eighty-second consecutive week, the campaign has become a symbol of resistance by political prisoners and justice-seeking families against the deadly policy of executions in Iran. This collective movement, spanning […]

August 19th, 2025

Prisoner Transferred to Solitary Confinement in Isfahan Central Prison for Execution

19 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – At least one prisoner who had been arrested on a charge of “murder” and sentenced to death has been transferred to solitary confinement in Isfahan Central Prison in preparation for the implementation of his sentence. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ […]

August 14th, 2025

Uncertainty Over Fate of Five Political Prisoners Amid Imminent Execution Risk

14 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – More than a week has passed since the forced and violent transfer of five political prisoners, yet there is still no precise information on their condition or whereabouts. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Friday, 8 […]

August 14th, 2025

Ali Younesi Transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj

13 August 2025 News category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – Imprisoned student Ali Younesi was transferred from Qom Prison to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on 13 August 2025. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Wednesday, 13 August 2025, political prisoner Ali Younesi was moved […]

August 12th, 2025

81st Week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign in 49 Prisons Against the Machinery of Execution

12 August 2025 News Group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – While the execution machinery of the Islamic Republic relentlessly takes lives, the voice of resistance rises from behind bars and from within 49 prisons across the country. In the 81st week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, political prisoners — through a hunger strike, […]

August 9th, 2025

Silencing Elite Voices: New Sentences for Moradi and Younesi on Vague Charges and Additional Punishments

9 August 2025 News Group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, two elite students and political prisoners who had already been handed heavy prison sentences, have once again been targeted by judicial pressure through the issuance of new court rulings while in prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the […]

August 9th, 2025

Physical Violence and Death Threats During Forced Transfer of Hundreds of Political Prisoners to Evin

8 August 2025 News category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement – In the early hours of the morning, more than 600 political and security prisoners from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafouyeh) were forcibly transferred to wards 7 and 8 of Evin Prison without prior notice, using security forces and physical violence. The transfer, which took place […]