3-April-2021 Newsgroup: Religious Minorities – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, March 27, through an official notification, Nika Pakzadan, Faraneh Daneshgari, Sanaz Ishaqi, Nakisa Hajipour and Naghmeh Zabihian, five Baha’i citizens living in Mashhad, were summoned to the Judgment Enforcement Unit of Mashhad Prosecutor’s Office to serve their prison sentences. In September last year, […]
Breathing in Confinement: The UN Human Rights Council released a statement calling for a full and transparent investigation into the death of Behnam Mahjoubi. The organization emphasized that the death of Mahjoubi reveals that Iranian prisoners are repeatedly denied medical treatment and demanded immediate access of all prisoners to medical treatment Behnam Mahjoubi, a Gonabadi […]
Breathing in Confinement, February 10, 2021: On Monday, February 8, 2021, Ebrahim Firoozi, a Christian convert who is serving his exile, after being summoned to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Rusk, was arrested and transferred to the Chabahar Prison. The reason for his arrest and his whereabouts is yet to be known. […]
Breathing in Confinement, February 9, 2021: Khedr Ghaderi Azar and Shafi Mohammadnejad, two citizens of Piranshahr, were sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison by the city’s Revolutionary Court. The two citizens had previously been detained by security forces in early November and released on bail in late December.
Breathing in Confinement: Two Baloch clerics who on January 16, had been transferred to solitary confinement for execution, were returned back to the prison’s general ward. According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, two Sunni Baloch clerics, named “Amanullah Balochi” and “Hafez Abdul Rahim Koohi”, who on Monday, January 16, had been transferred to quarantine […]
Breathing in Confinement: On January 19, 2021, a Baloch prisoner named Anwar Aalizehi, was executed in Zahedan Prison. According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, Anwar had been arrested two years ago on drug charges. “Being unemployed and having poor living condition, Anwar was transferring drugs, before which he had no criminal record,” said […]
Breathing in Confinement, January 11, 2021: On Saturday, January 9, 2021, two Kurdish students of Kharazmi University in Karaj, who were staying in the university’s dormitory, were arrested by the security forces. Five other Kurdish citizens also were concurrently arrested in the cities of Marivan and Mahabad. According to “Breathing in Confinement “, the […]
Breathing in Confinement, December 26, 2020: There is no information available on the fate of a Baluch citizen who was arrested in April this year.
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: On Sunday, November 22, 2020, security forces raided the homes of a large number of Baha’i families in various provinces in Iran and confiscated their personal belongings including computers, laptops, cell phones, and books.