Breathing in Confinement

Prisoners
September 4th, 2025

Transfer of a Baloch Prisoner to Solitary Confinement for Execution in Yazd Prison

3 September 2025 News category: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – At least one prisoner who had been arrested on charges of “murder” and sentenced to death was transferred to solitary confinement in Yazd Prison in preparation for execution. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on […]

August 31st, 2025

Ten Prisoners Transferred to Solitary Confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison for Execution

31 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – At least ten prisoners who had been arrested on charges of “drug-related offences” and “murder” and sentenced to death were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj, in preparation for execution. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]

August 28th, 2025

Prisoner transferred to solitary for execution at Ghezel Hesar Prison

28 August 2025News category: Prisoners Breathing in Confinement — At least one prisoner, convicted on drug-related charges, has been transferred to solitary confinement at Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj in preparation for execution. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Thursday, 28 August 2025 a prisoner at […]

August 27th, 2025

Nationwide Protest Against Executions and Injustice in 50 Prisons and 10 Public Gatherings

  26 August 2025 News Category: Protests – Prisoners – Workers and Guilds Breathing in Confinement – Coinciding with the 83rd week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, launched by political prisoners in 50 prisons across the country, families of political prisoners sentenced to death also held demonstrations demanding the immediate abolition of death sentences. […]

August 26th, 2025

Truck Driver Shahab Darabi Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Supporting Strike Action

26 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – Shahab Darabi, a truck driver and resident of Eslamabad-e Gharb, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to three years and one day in prison for supporting the nationwide truck drivers’ strike. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in […]

August 26th, 2025

Motahareh Gonaei Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison

26 August 2025News group: Prisoners –Breathing in Confinement – Student activist Motahareh Gonaei has been sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Motahareh Gonaei announced in a note: “The Revolutionary Court sentenced me to 15 months in prison on the charge […]

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 […]