10 February 2026 News category: Protests Breathing in Confinement – Ali Heydari, a 20-year-old young man, was injured during popular protests on 8 January 2026 in Mashhad after being shot directly in the leg by security forces. According to accounts from his friends, he was arrested while in critical physical condition. From that point […]
6 January 2026News category: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Students Breathing in Confinement — On the tenth day of nationwide protests, widespread demonstrations and strikes were held in cities across the country. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, based on field information received and compiled […]
12 October 2025News group: Protests – Pensioners – Workers & Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – At least eleven protest gatherings were held by various groups across the country. Social Security pensioners in Shush, Haft-Tappeh and Karkheh rallied outside the Shush governor’s office, while Social Security pensioners in Tehran, Ahvaz, Rasht and Shushtar gathered outside […]
29 September 2025 News group: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Hunger Strikes by Political Prisoners – Executions – Ethnic Minorities – Students – Breathing in Confinement – According to the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at least 196 prisoners were executed over the past month (20 August to 20 September […]
4 October 2025News group: Protests – Workers & Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – At least six protest gatherings were held by different groups across the country. Staff of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) in the Bahregan operational area protested over incomplete wage payments, pay discrimination, inflation and rising costs, the failure to implement […]
30 September 2025News group: Protests – Hunger Strikes by Political Prisoners – Pensioners – Students – Prisoners – Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – Coinciding with the eighty-eighth week of the political prisoners’ hunger strike, at least sixteen protest gatherings were held by various groups of people in cities across the country. According […]
28 September 2025 News group: Protests – Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – At least twelve protest gatherings were held across the country by different groups of people. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Social Security retirees in Ahvaz and Rasht, as well […]
15 September 2025 News Group: Protests – Pensioners – Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – At least 27 protest gatherings were held in various parts of the country. Different groups of people, including pensioners, workers, educational staff, volunteers, and patients, took part in these protests to voice their opposition to poor living conditions, […]
14-September-2025News Group: Protests – Pensioners – Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement – On Sunday, at least 11 protest gatherings were held across different parts of the country by various groups of people, including pensioners, workers, and employees. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Social […]
12 September 2025News Group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – A death sentence has been issued against a political prisoner held in Evin Prison on charges of corruption on earth (efsad fel-arz) and membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]