May 26, 2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Monday, May 24, after 18 months in prison, the political prisoner, Sajjad Zare, was granted a furlough followed by release from Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. Sajjad Zare was one of the political prisoners who went on a hunger strike since late March, after releasing […]
23-May-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Peyman Farhangian, a poet and labor activist, on charges such as “forming a four-member telegram group”, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, 7 years of which will be suspended, and therefore, he has to spend three years in prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the […]
23-May-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, May 20, 2021, after 405 days of being held in temporary detention in Evin Security Ward 209, Ali Younesi met his lawyer, Mr. Mostafa Nili. Ali Younesi’s brother, confirming the news on his personal Twitter page, announced that the Ministry of Intelligence agents had been […]
20-May-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Breathing in Confinement: The retired teacher Mahboubeh Farahzadi, an Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association activist and a member of the Voice of Iranian Women Association, was summoned to be questioned by Branch 7 of the Evin Court. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in […]
20-May-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Farzin Rezaei Roshan, a political prisoner who had been deported to Rajaei Shahr Prison where he was being held in solitary confinement, was transferred to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, in recent […]
16-May-2021 Newsgroup: Execution – Breathing in Confinement: On May 15, 2021, the death sentences of 4 prisoners were carried out in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. Among them was a 25-year-old prisoner who had previously been sentenced to three times execution for “rape”. According to Breathing in Confinement, the new organ of the Prisoners’ […]
19-May-2021 Newsgroup: Women – Breathing in Confinement: On , May 18, 2021, Faezeh Momeni, who works as an urban field journalist for Event 24 and Sobheno institutes, went to Beheshti University of Medical Sciences where Covid-19 vaccination was being done. She however, after preparing the report, was pressurized by the university security office to […]
3-May-2021 Newsgroup: Suicide – Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, May 1, 2021, a 16-year-old boy in Abadan attempted suicide by hanging himself. According to Rokna News Agency, on Saturday, May 1, 2021, a teenage boy in Abadan committed suicide by hanging himself and lost his life. As per the report, while hanging himself, he posted […]
3-May-2021 Newsgroup: Religious Minorities – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The Court of Appeals in Alborz Province reduced the sentence of Reza Zaimi a Christian convert to 9 months imprisonment as well as a two-year ban from leaving the country. In late January this year, Reza Zaimi had been sentenced by Karaj Revolutionary Court to […]
May 2, 2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner who was being held in Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj, was released on May 1, 2021. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Arash Sadeghi, who last time was arrested in 2016 and […]