Iran’s “No to Execution Tuesdays”

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Iran’s “No to Execution Tuesdays” Hunger strikes 125th week in 56 different prisons.

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In the critical conditions of Iranian society, while the Velayat-e Faqih regime and its apparatus of suppression and judiciary have hanged more than 177 prisoners since the beginning of the Iranian year 1405 (March 21, 2026), we continue to witness the issuing and implementation of inhumane death sentences. This is a desperate attempt to contain the explosion of public anger of a people who are fed up with oppression, tyranny, and high prices.

According to news published last week, in addition to hundreds of common-crime prisoners who are sentenced to death in silence and a large number of whom have their sentences carried out, the death sentences of at least political prisoners Ali Fattah and Mohammad Naghizadeh have been confirmed by the Supreme Court, and they have been transferred to solitary confinement in Qezel Hesar Prison.

Two other political prisoners named Ali Kamali and Peyman Ganji have also been transferred from the Greater Tehran Prison to Qezel Hesar Prison. Peyman Ganji is a 23-year-old youth who was arrested in the January 2026 uprising and was sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.

As we have pointed out many times before, Qezel Hesar Prison is the main center of executions in Tehran province and one of the government’s slaughterhouses, housing many of those sentenced to death; and prisoners sentenced to death are put at risk of execution after being transferred to this prison.

In response to the wave of executions of political prisoners and the danger to the lives of five prisoners (Alireza Mardasi, Masoud Jamei, Reza Abdali, Farshad Etemadifar, and Hassan Maslawi), Amnesty International has called for a halt to the executions of these five individuals and other prisoners in Iran.

We, the members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, demand an immediate halt to executions and call on all awake consciences and political, human rights, civil, and labor activists, etc., to condemn executions in any way possible and to take serious action to stop them.

The realization of freedom, equality, and the preservation of human dignity is not possible without realizing the right to life of human beings. We issue a call for solidarity and united action to all opponents of execution to break the despotic structure and the cycle of depriving human life.

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign is on hunger strike on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in its 125th week in the following 56 prisons