The “Tuesdays Against Execution” Hunger Strike Campaign Continues for Its 127th Week in Defiance of the Execution Machine

30 June 2026

News Category: Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

Breathing in Confinement: The “Tuesdays Against Execution” hunger strike campaign by political prisoners continued into its 127th consecutive week across 57 prisons throughout Iran.

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, while the machinery of repression and execution continues to take human lives unabated, a government that claims to uphold justice increasingly reveals its true face through repression, intimidation, and blatant violations of human rights. What is unfolding in Iran today is not the administration of justice, but the imposition of organised violence against people who seek nothing more than the right to life and freedom. In the face of such oppression and injustice, the hunger strikes and perseverance of political prisoners, together with their statements, represent an effort to break the imposed silence, expose this cycle of death, and awaken dormant consciences. Rising from behind prison walls, these voices serve as a reminder that even under the darkest circumstances it remains possible to resist, to speak out, and to demand an end to systematic repression.

Full statement of the political prisoners:

Continuation of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign in 57 Prisons During Its 127th Week

The execution and repression machinery of the ruling authoritarian government continues its work, and we witness the daily execution of political prisoners and prisoners convicted of ordinary crimes across the country.

The state judiciary has announced that 3,292 people have been arrested since the beginning of the recent war on charges of “collaboration with the enemy.” This figure has been published at a time when, following the suppression of the nationwide protests in January by military and security forces, the crackdown on protesters has entered a new phase, leaving many detainees exposed to the possibility of death sentences or lengthy prison terms. The prosecutor of Sari has stated that 700 cases have been opened against participants in the January protests, while Ahmad Alamolhoda, the Friday Prayer Imam of Mashhad, has spoken of thousands of cases against those arrested during the January uprising.

The number of executions carried out between 20 May and 20 June of this year has reportedly reached approximately 140 people.

The record of this government is marked by widespread and blatant human rights violations and by the use of execution as a tool of repression and intimidation. Thousands of families in Iran mourn loved ones who have fallen victim to an inhumane process driven by the will of a repressive state. Among them is the voice of a father asking, “Where is my son’s grave?”—a cry emerging from the depths of suffering and injustice. This question, posed by the father of Vahid Bani Amerian, a political prisoner who, together with five other political prisoners, was executed in Qezel Hesar Prison in April this year, along with the demands of other families who have not been given the bodies of their loved ones, is not merely a personal plea. It is the outcry of many truth-seeking families who have been deprived even of the most basic right to know the burial place of their relatives. Such deprivation constitutes a continuation of punishment beyond death and a clear violation of human dignity, where suffering neither ends nor is even permitted the space for mourning.

In the face of this repression and what prisoners describe as medieval barbarity, the voices of those participating in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign remain strong. Every Tuesday, without interruption, they reiterate that the death penalty must be abolished and that freedom and equality must prevail in Iran.

On Tuesday, 30 June, during its 127th week, participants in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign are on hunger strike in the following 57 prisons:

Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Qezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3 and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison in Karaj, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison in Varamin, Chubindar Prison in Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud 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), Firuzabad Prison in Fars Province, 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, Ilam Prison, and Kerman Prison.

Week 127

Tuesday, 30 June 2026