Breathing in Confinement: Following a complaint filed against the residents by Bonyad-e Mostazafan (Foundation of the Oppressed), and after the law enforcement agents along with the municipality staffs were deployed to”Hazrat Abolfazl” village in Ahvaz, to demolish the houses, the residents protested the decision and fought with the police. “In this clash, the unarmed […]
Breathing in Confinement: While on leave from prison, an inmate killed his ex-wife and afterward, went to the police station to confess. He was in prison on a charge of unpaid dowry (the amount of money that at the time of marriage, is mutually agreed to be paid or being committed to be paid by […]
Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, August 7, 2020, the death sentence of Haidar Ghorbani, a political prisoner from Kamyaran, was upheld by Branch 27 of the Supreme Court, and his lawyer was notified of this.
Breathing in Confinement: The detention custody of Sharmin Meymandinejad, the founder of Imam Ali’s Popular Students Relief Society, was extended. He has been in detention since June 21, 2020
Breathing in Confinement: The detention custody of Sharmin Meymandinejad, the founder of Imam Ali’s Popular Students Relief Society, was extended. He has been in detention since June 21, 2020.
Breathing in Confinement, May 20, 2020: The Court of Appeals in North Khorasan, upheld the sentence of 25 years in prison for seven activists and directors of North Khorasan Teachers’ Union.
Breathing in Confinement – Maryam Akbari Monfared, a political prisoner serving her 11th year in Evin Prison, was denied a family visit for three weeks.
Breathing in Confinement – Eight political prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison in a statement condemned the Islamic Republic’s parliamentary elections. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, eight political prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison releasing a statement on boycott of the forthcoming election, announced that “Participating in […]
Breathing in Confinement- On Saturday, February 8, 2020, the security forces of Tabriz intelligence office violently raided the houses of a number of former political prisoners and transferred them to an unknown location.
Breathing in Confinement – According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights in Iran, over the past year, 274 inmates have faced the death penalty in prisons and occasionally in public. In spite of widespread international protests, the Islamic Republic’s authorities have not taken any action to improve the human rights situation in Iran. […]