Breathing in Confinement

Repression
May 29th, 2022

Vahid Fereydoni released from Evin Prison on bail

29-May-2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Repression – Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Vahid Fereydoni, a trade union activist of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, and one of the arrested drivers of BRT lines, was released from Evin Prison on bail […]

May 29th, 2022

Farajullah Alhaei temporarily released from Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz

29-May-2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Farajullah Alhaei , a civil activist living in Ahvaz, was temporarily released on bail from Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, awaiting the trial. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Saturday, […]

May 28th, 2022

Execution of Abdullah Brahui in Zahedan Prison

May 25, 2022 Newsgroup: Execution – Ethnic Minorities – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: On Sunday, May 21, a prisoner sentenced to death on drug charges was executed in Zahedan Prison. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner was executed for drug-related charges in Zahedan […]

May 22nd, 2022

Akbar Jahani arrested by security forces in Tabriz

21-May-2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Ethnic Minorities – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: On May 19, 2022, Akbar Jahani, a poet and civil activist from Tabriz, was arrested by security forces. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, concurrently with the football match between the teams […]

May 17th, 2022

Protest rallies against rising prices; Four of the detainees in Junaqan were identified

May 16, 2022 Newsgroup: Reppression – Breathing in Confinement: In recent days, as people protested the unprecedented rise in prices, a large number of protesters were arrested and taken to an unknown locations in various cities, including Junaqan. It is estimated that more than 100 people have been arrested in the City of Junaqan in […]

May 16th, 2022

Widespread protests against inflation; High security state in Junaqan and detention of hundreds of protesters

May 14, 2022 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: In recent days, the people of Junaqan in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, along with other cities, took to the streets to protest the poor economic situation and the high cost of basic goods. On May 13, 2022, Habib Fadai and several members […]

April 16th, 2022

Mehdi Salehi died in prison and buried under security measures

15-April-2022 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Repression – Breathing in Confinement: Mehdi Salehi, a political prisoner sentenced to death, who had fallen into a coma after receiving a wrong medication injection in prison, died. Mehdi was one of the detainees of the January 2017 protests. His body was buried in a new cemetery in Yazdanshahr, on Friday, […]