16-July-2021 Newsgroup: Uncategorized – Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, July 15, 2021, people in various cities of Khuzestan province, widely protested against the water shortage. From Thursday evening, people in the cities of Susangard, Bandar Mahshahr, Ahvaz, Abadan, Bostan, Hamidiyeh, Kuy-e Zaviyeh and Dasht-e Azadegan took to the streets to protest. Heavy presence of […]
9-July-2021 Newsgroup: Uncategorized – Breathing in Confinement: Over 1600 elevator accidents have occurred in the past 6 days in Tehran, due to recurrent power cuts. Jalal Maleki, the spokesman for the Fire Department of Tehran Municipality, said that because of the repeated power cuts, the past six days were “unprecedented in the fire department’s […]
7-July-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Seventy days after his arrest, Manouchehr Bakhtiari, a civil activist and the father of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the protesters killed in the November 2019 nationwide uprisings, is still being held in detention, while no information has been released on his condition. Manouchehr Bakhtiari was arrested on April […]
7-July-2021 Newsgroup: Children – Breathing in Confinement: On Sunday, July 4, in the village of Down Gozani , a 7-year-old girl who just wanted to drink water from a Hutag drowned and lost her life. According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Tayyebeh Pilehvar, daughter of […]
7-July-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Branch 36 of the Court of Appeals in Tehran upheld the sentence of one year in prison for Mahan Jalaldoost, a citizen living in Tehran. Mr. Jalaldoost had previously been sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to 1 year in prison as well as […]
6-July-2021 Newsgroup: Workers and Guilds – Breathing in Confinement: On the night of July 5, 2021, people in at least 10 cities, gathered in front of the electricity offices and chanted slogans against the power shutdown. Over the last few days power shutdowns have been routinely happened for 2-3 times a day, lasting about […]
6-July-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Today, July 6, Yasman Ariani, an objector to compulsory hijab, was sent on leave from Kachuei Prison in Karaj. This political prisoner, was arrested along with her mother, on April 10, 2019, following their protest against the compulsory hijab. Yasaman was later sentenced to 9 years and 7 […]
6-July-2021 Newsgroup: Students – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Following an urgent meeting held on July 4, 2021, Tehran University revoked the decision on banning Kasra Nouri from education. Earlier, the University of Tehran had announced the expulsion of this dervish prisoner who is begin held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary. According to Breathing […]
5-July-2021 Newsgroup: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Today, July 5, Sepideh Farhan was granted a leave followed by release from Qarchak prison in Varamin. Ms. Farhan, a civil activist and one of the detainees of the December 2017 uprisings, was arrested on January 1, 2020 and transferred to Evin Prison to serve her two-year sentence. […]
5-July-2021 Newsgroup: Uncategorized Breathing in Confinement: Dr. Mohammad Reza Hashemian – Specialist Intensivist in Masih Daneshvari Hospital, referring to a video of death of patients in an ICU ward because of the power shut down, said in an interview with Rokna News Agency: “This time a video has been released, but we are frequently witnessing […]