Certainly \u2014 here is the same translation in full narrative form without bullet points:<\/p>\n
22 April 2025<\/strong> Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 On Tuesday, 22 April 2025, during the 65th week of the hunger strike by political prisoners across the country, families of political prisoners sentenced to death gathered in protest outside Evin Prison.<\/p>\n According to the Statistical Centre of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Breathing in Confinement, the hunger strike has now spread to 41 prisons nationwide, with inmates from Behbahan Prison recently joining. At the same time, families of death row political prisoners held a protest in front of Evin Prison to voice their objection to the issuance of death sentences and the suspension of the right to telephone contacts. They demanded an end to executions and the reinstatement of phone communications with their loved ones.<\/p>\n In a statement, the striking prisoners said that the rising number of executions was a clear sign of the country\u2019s explosive social climate. They condemned the recent execution of political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou and the issuance of a death sentence for political prisoner Pejman Soltani.<\/p>\n The hunger strike has been taking place in numerous prisons, including Greater Tehran Prison, Evin Prison (women\u2019s ward, and wards 4, 6, and 8), Ghezel Hesar (units 3 and 4), and the central prisons of Karaj, Khorramabad, Naqadeh, Khoy, Mashhad, Saqqez, Ardabil, Qaemshahr, Urmia, Marivan, Kamyaran, Baneh, Salmas, Nezam and Adelabad Shiraz (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Rasht (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Bam, Tabriz, Arak, Kahnuj, Asadabad, Dastgerd Isfahan, Tabas, Khorin Varamin, Rudsar, Ahvaz (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Ramhormoz, Talesh, Borazjan, Jowin, Gonbad-e Kavus, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Miandoab, Azbarom Lahijan, the women\u2019s ward in Zahedan, and Behbahan Prison.<\/p>\n In Kermanshah, retired teachers, social security retirees, and telecommunications pensioners gathered to protest against low wages, economic hardship, inequality, poverty, inflation, and high living costs. They called for increased pensions, better welfare services, and free healthcare. Demonstrators chanted slogans such as \u201cStand up against execution rulings,\u201d \u201cImprisoned teachers must be freed,\u201d \u201cTheir slogan is Hossein Hossein \u2014 but they are liars, they are thieves.\u201d \u201cSupplementary insurance is a form of national plunder,\u201d \u201cThey looted Iran and left us destitute,\u201d \u201cUnity against oppression and corruption,\u201d and \u201cSadeghi, Sadeghi (Minister of Education) \u2014 schools are not military bases.\u201d<\/p>\n In Tabriz, social welfare workers gathered in front of the Welfare Office to protest low wages and poor benefits, following the disbursement of the first monthly salary of the new year.<\/p>\n In Amol, residents staged a protest against the deforestation of Chelav Forest.<\/p>\n In the village of Naseri, located in Khash, locals demonstrated in front of the Water and Wastewater Department over ongoing water shortages and the authorities\u2019 failure to deliver on their promises.<\/p>\n In Tehran, victims of a property fraud scheme by the construction company Banna Afarinan Elna Alborz held a protest in front of the judiciary, demanding that their case be properly investigated.<\/p>\n In Qazvin, applicants for the National Housing Project protested in front of the Housing and Urban Development office. 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\nNews Group: Retirees\u2013 Workers and Guilds<\/strong><\/p>\n