IRAN - The 125th week

IRAN - The 125th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign

June 16, 2026:

June 16, 2026 - IRAN - The 125th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign in 56 prisons across Iran

In the 125th week of this protest movement, members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign went on a hunger strike in 56 different prisons across the country to declare their decisive opposition to the inhumane punishment of execution. This protest action continues under circumstances where the judiciary has hanged more than 177 prisoners since the beginning of the Iranian year 1405 (March 21, 2026), and by repeatedly transferring political and protesting prisoners to solitary confinement cells in Ghezel Hesar Prison, has put the lives of more of them at immediate risk of execution. Pointing to recent warnings by Amnesty International, the hunger strikers and human rights activists demand public solidarity and serious international action to break the cycle of deprivation of life and to immediately halt these cruel sentences.

Please find the full text of the statement by the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign below:

Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign in its 125th week in 56 different prisons.

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:

Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison in Karaj, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison in Varamin, Choobindar Prison in Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langaroud Prison in Qom, Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison in Isfahan, Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Prison in Shiraz, Adelabad Prison in Shiraz (women’s and men’s wards), Firouzabad Prison in Fars, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Haviq Prison in Talesh, Azbaram Prison in Lahijan, Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Miandoab Prison, Mahabad Prison, Bukan Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, Sanandaj Prison, Kamyaran Prison, and Ilam Prison.

Week 125

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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