107th Week of the Hunger Strike by Political Prisoners in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign
12-February-2026
Category: Hunger Strike of Political Prisoners
10 February 2026
News category: Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
Breathing in Confinement – The hunger strike of political prisoners participating in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign has reached its 107th consecutive week across 56 prisons nationwide.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the escalating wave of executions, extrajudicial arrests, torture, and forced confessions constitutes a blatant violation of fundamental human rights principles, including the right to a fair trial, human dignity, and the prohibition of torture. The “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign represents a civil and humanitarian voice of protest against the cycle of state violence— a collective effort to defend the lives of political prisoners and to resist an inhumane punishment that brings neither justice nor security. This campaign is a call to the global conscience to safeguard the right to life and human dignity.
Full statement by the political prisoners
“Based on reports and information received during the proud uprising of January, the repressive forces of the Supreme Leader’s regime, in addition to massacring thousands of innocent people, arrested tens of thousands of Iranian citizens and young people, subjecting many of them to severe physical and psychological pressure to extract forced confessions.
According to these reports, in line with the intensification of repression and public intimidation, the execution-oriented government has arrested a number of lawyers, physicians, and healthcare workers—demonstrating its growing fear of the courageous January uprising of the people.
Over the past 20 days alone, the ruling authoritarian regime has executed more than 207 individuals, including two women. In addition, hundreds and thousands of detained prisoners, held incommunicado, face the threat of medieval death sentences. In recent days, Kurdish political prisoner Naser Bakarzadeh has been sentenced to death for the third time and is in serious and imminent danger of execution.
We therefore call upon the brave and courageous people of Iran to be the voice of detainees and political prisoners. We also urge the families of detainees to raise their voices in protest against oppression, injustice, and widespread unlawful arrests, and to stand firmly in support of their loved ones.
Yes, fellow compatriots— in these circumstances, silence is not an option. The only path forward is protest and resistance. In these critical times, we aspire to an Iran that is free and equal, free from violence and executions, where the right to self-determination belongs to the people.
The ‘Tuesdays Against Execution’ campaign is observing a hunger strike on Tuesday, 10 February 2026, in its 107th week, in the following 56 prisons:
[Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Qezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Central Karaj Prison, Fardis Prison (Karaj), Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison (Varamin), Chubindar Prison (Qazvin), Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langerud Prison (Qom), Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison (Isfahan), Dastgerd Prison (Isfahan), Sheiban Prison (Ahvaz), Sepidar Prison (Ahvaz – women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Prison (Shiraz), Adelabad Prison (Shiraz – women’s and men’s wards), Firoozabad Prison (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), Kahnooj Prison, Tabas Prison, Central Birjand Prison, Vakilabad Prison (Mashhad), Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Haviq Prison (Talesh), Azbarom Prison (Lahijan), Dieselabad Prison (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.]
107th Week
Tuesday, 10 February 2026