16 February 2026News category: Arrests – Students Breathing in Confinement – Amid continued repression and security crackdowns at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, five students have been arrested. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on the morning of Monday, 16 February 2026, four students of Tabriz […]
6 February 2026News Category: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Nasser Bekarzadeh, a security prisoner held at Urmia Prison, has been sentenced to death for the third time by Branch Two of the Urmia Revolutionary Court on charges of “espionage,” even though the previous death sentences in his case had been overturned twice by the […]
2 December 2025 News outlet: Prisoners – Uncategorized Breathing in Confinement – The hunger strike of political prisoners participating in the Tuesdays Against Execution campaign has continued into its 97th week, now involving detainees in 55 prisons across the country. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, […]
26 November 2025News category: Executions Breathing in Confinement – The death sentence of at least one prisoner who had previously been arrested on the charge of “relationship out of marriage” and subsequently sentenced to death has been carried out in Isfahan Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League […]
11 November 2025News Category: Prisoners – Workers & Guilds Breathing in Confinement — Concurrent with the ninety-fourth week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” hunger-strike campaign, political prisoners in 54 prisons across the country went on hunger strike, and at the national level at least 19 protest gatherings and marches were held. According to Breathing in […]
22 October 2025News group: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentences of at least three prisoners convicted on drug-related charges were carried out in Isfahan Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, at dawn on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, three prisoners were hanged in Isfahan Prison. The identities of Saman Talebi and Habib Haq-Shenas […]
18 October 2025News group: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentence of at least one prisoner convicted on drug-related charges was carried out in Arak Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, at dawn on Saturday, 18 October 2025, a prisoner was hanged in Arak Prison. The prisoner’s identity, Mehdi Hamze’i, has been verified. […]
13 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement – Following the transfer of a group of death-row prisoners to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison for imminent execution, a number of prisoners have launched a hunger strike today, Monday, 13 October 2025, refusing their meals in protest at what they describe as a cruel […]
7 October 2025 Category: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentence of at least one prisoner convicted of drug-related offences was carried out in Ghezel Hesar Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, in the early hours of Tuesday, 7 October 2025, a […]
30 September 2025News group: Executions – Breathing in Confinement – The death sentences of at least three prisoners who had been arrested on charges of “murder” and drug-related offences were carried out in Isfahan Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at dawn on Monday, 29 […]