23-November-2021 Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution – Prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: Over the past one month, systematic violations of human rights in Iran have continued. Execution, death sentence, arrest, imprisonment, and flogging were examples of human rights violations committed by the authorities of the Islamic Republic. The government’s failure in providing Covid-19 vaccine […]
Breathing in Confinement, February 9, 2021: On Tuesday, February 9, 2021, after appearing in Evin’s Sentence Implementation Unit, Hossein Jandaghian, a student activist was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison to serve his six-month sentence.
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 […]
Breathing in Confinement: After being summoned, Saeed Eghbali, one of the detainees of January 2018 uprising, was arrested on May 31, 2020, and was transferred to Evin prison to serve his five years sentence.
Nineteen women political prisoners in Evin Prison are in imminent risk of catching coronavirus infection in the lack of sanitary equipment supply in overcrowded conditions of the prison.
Breathing in Confinement – Sepideh Farahan, one of the detainees of the December 2017 protests was arrested on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, and was transferred to Evin Prison. According to the information received by Breathing in Confinement- the news organ of Prisoners ‘Rights League in Iran, yesterday January 1, to serve her 2 years sentence, […]
Breathing in Confinement – Narges Mohammadi Deputy Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC), has been transferred to Zanjan prison. She was among the women who had been on a sit-in at Evin prison protesting the killing of protesters in November. She along with 7 other inmates had announced in a letter on […]
Breathing in Confinement – On Saturday, December 21, 2019, women political prisoners in Evin Prison turned celebration Yalda night into a commemoration ceremony for the martyrs of the November uprising. According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the ceremony began with a group anthem singing followed by recitation […]
Breathing in Confinement – Women political prisoners in Evin Prison announced in a statement that they would turn Yalda’s night into a commemoration of the martyrs of the November uprising.
Breathing in Confinement – Late last week, after being kept in jail for 11 years, the political prisoner Hassan Sishakhti was released from prison. He had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in 2010. His sentence, however, was eventually reduced to life in prison.