April 8, 2021 Newsgroup: Women – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: After being flogged, Zohreh Sarv, a political prisoner and media activist, was granted a leave from Qarchak prison in Varamin on Monday, April 4. This political prisoner inflicted 74 lashes despite the fact that her sentence had previously been converted to a fine and […]
Breathing in Confinement: Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student union activist and former political prisoner, was sentenced by Branch 28 of Revolutionary Court in Tehran to five years in prison as well as two years of ban from social media activities. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Leila […]
Breathing in Confinement: The Court of Appeals in Tehran upheld the sentence of 5 years imprisonment for Marjan Ishaqi, the political science student at the University of Tehran and one of the detainees of the November 2019 protests. Ms. Ishaqi was previously sentenced to 1 year in prison as well as 4 years suspended imprisonment […]
Breathing in Confinement: Court of Appeals sentenced Zahra Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and head of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association in Kurdistan, to five years in prison. According to Hengaw Human Rights Organization, on Saturday, February 13, 2021, the sentence of 10 years imprisonment for Zahra Mohammadi, was reduced to 5 years by the Court […]
Breathing in Confinement: The sentences of two women rights activists, Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi, were upheld by Tehran’s Court of Appeals. Hoda Amid, a lawyer and women’s rights activist, and Najmeh Vahedi, a women’s rights activist, were previously sentenced to 15 years in prison as well as two years band from social activities, by […]
Breathing in Confinement: The prison sentence for Suha Mortezaei, the student activist and former secretary of the Tehran University Guild Council, was upheld in Tehran Court of Appeals- Branch 54. Suha Mortezaei had previously been sentenced to six years in prison by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
Breathing in Confinement, February 6, 2021: A young woman from Urmia was killed by her brother and father and her body was set on fire. According to the report of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, a 32-year-old woman from the village of Gangchin in the Baradust district of Urmia, […]
Breathing in Confinement, January 17, 2021: More than 36 days after the political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, being beaten by Prison Guards was transferred from Qarchak Prison in Varamin to Ward 2A of Evin Prison, she is still being held in solitary confinement and is denied the right to visit or contact to her family.
Breathing in Confinement, December 28, 2020: The death sentence of a woman from the City of Qorveh, who in 2015, had been sentenced to death for murder, was carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison.
Thirty one women prisoners and political defendants are currently being held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. This is a High Security Ward with at least 30 CCTV by which the prisoners are under constant control. In terms of medical care, hospital referrals, food and hygiene, especially following the outbreak of Covid-19, the ward’s […]