Breathing in Confinement

Suppression
October 27th, 2024

Monthly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran — September 20 – October 20,  2024

News Category: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Executions – Religious Minorities – Ethnic Minorities – Arrests – Retirees According to the Statistical Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, during the second month of Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidency, there has been an unprecedented surge in executions, with at least 157 prisoners executed, breaking the […]

August 26th, 2024

Human Rights Violations Report in Iran for August 2024

26 August 2024 News Categories: Freedom of Expression – Protests – Executions – Religious Minorities – Ethnic Minorities – Pensioners – Students – Women – Suppression – 2022 Uprising – Workers and Unions Breathing in Confinement: According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at least 126 prisoners were executed during […]

May 5th, 2024

Death sentence against Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.

May 5, 2024 News Group: Protests – Execution – Prisoners – Suppression Breathing in Confinement: Mahmoud Mehrabi, a political prisoner in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Isfahan Province. Mr. Mehrabi was arrested in February 2022. According to “Breathing in Confinement,” the news organ of the Prisoners’ […]

March 30th, 2024

11 Women’s Rights Activists in Gilan Province Sentenced to At Least 60 Years of Disciplinary Imprisonment

  March 30, 2024 News Group: Women – Suppression – Uprising 2022 – Breathing in Confinement: Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht sentenced11 women’s rights activists in Gilan to over 60 years of imprisonment. According to “Breathing in Confinement,” the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Wednesday, March 27, […]

March 15th, 2024

Tabriz; Ali Zohdi detained by security forces and transferred to an unknown location

  March 15, 2024 News Group: Suppression – Breathing in Confinement: On March 10, 2024, Ali Zohdi, a civil engineer from Tabriz, was detained by security forces in Tabriz and transferred to an unknown location. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news agency of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, 27-year-old Ali Zohdi from Tabriz […]

January 10th, 2024

Mohammad Shojaa, a pediatric specialist in Bojnourd, was detained for publishing a photo of cutlet (Iranian people liken the image of Qassem Soleimani’s corpse to that of a cutlet.)

January 4, 2024 News Category: Suppression – Breathing in Confinement: Mohammad Shojaa, a paediatric cardiac surgeon and university professor residing in Bojnourd, North Khorasan Province, has been detained for posting an Instagram image of “Cutlet” (a type of food). Security forces have labelled it as an insult to sanctities. According to “Breathing in Confinement,” the […]

March 4th, 2023

After their release from prison, three political prisoners in Rajaeeshahr prison were beaten before the execution of their deportation sentence; Vahid Bani Amerian went unconscious

  February 28, 2023 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Suppression – Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, February 25, 2023, after being released from prison, Vahid Bani Amerian, Pooya Qobadi, and Seyed Mohammad Taghavi, three political prisoners in Rajaeeshahr prison, were transferred to the cities where they were sentenced to be exiled to. Their transfer was with beating […]

September 1st, 2022

The film director, Mojtaba Mirtahmaseb, was summoned and temporarily arrested

August 30, 2022 Newsgroup: suppression – Breathing in Confinement: On Monday, August 29, 2022, Mojtabi Mirtahmaseb, a film director and documentary maker, was summoned to the investigation branch of Tehran’s 33rd District Prosecutor’s Office, located in Evin Prison. And after being notified of his charges, he was later released on bail.   According to “Breathing […]

July 29th, 2022

Arrest of Omid Ansarifar, another member of Ansarifar family in Behbahan

July 27, 2022 Newsgroup: suppression – Breathing in Confinement: On July 27, 2022, to arrest Farzaneh Ansarifar, the sister of Farzad Ansarifar, one of the victims of the November 2019 protests, the security forces in Behbahan raided her home. However, because Ms. Ansari Fard was not at home, the agents after searching the home, and […]

July 27th, 2022

Report on human rights violations in Iran from June 20 to July 20, 2022; Execution of at least 49 prisoners

July 27, 2022 Newsgroup: Protests – Execution – Women – Prisoners – Suppression – Sukhtbars- Breathing in Confinement: Widespread violations of human rights with massive arrests and violent treatment of protesting citizens continued in the past month. In particular a significant intensification of repressive acts of the so called “Gasht Ershad” (police agents who arrest […]