The “Tuesdays Against Execution” Hunger Strike Campaign Reaches Its 125th Consecutive Week
16-June-2026
Category: Hunger Strike of Political Prisoners
16 June 2026
News Group: Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
Breathing in Confinement: The hunger strike campaign “Tuesdays Against Execution”, led by political prisoners, has entered its 125th consecutive week. This sustained act of resistance now spans 56 prisons across Iran and has become a symbol of steadfast opposition to the deprivation of the right to life.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, at a time when the right to life—the most fundamental and inalienable human right—is readily sacrificed to the machinery of repression, opposition to the death penalty is not merely a political demand but a humanitarian, moral, and universal outcry. A society in which death becomes an instrument of governance drifts ever further from justice, freedom, and human dignity.
Today, in the face of the expanding cycle of violence and state-sanctioned killings, standing in defence of the right to life, protecting human dignity, and opposing inhumane punishments are responsibilities shared by all people of conscience. This statement echoes from within Iran’s prisons—from the depths of suffering, yet filled with hope for a future in which freedom, equality, and human dignity are lived realities rather than mere slogans.
Full Statement by the Political Prisoners:
Continuation of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign Across 56 Prisons in Its 125th Week
Freedom, equality, and the preservation of human dignity cannot be achieved without safeguarding the right to life.
Amid Iran’s deepening social crisis, while the ruling system and its security and judicial apparatus have executed more than 177 prisoners since 20 March this year, death sentences continue to be issued and carried out. These actions represent a desperate attempt to contain mounting public anger fuelled by oppression, injustice, and worsening economic hardship.
According to reports published over the past week, in addition to hundreds of prisoners convicted of ordinary offences who have been sentenced to death without public attention—and many whose sentences have already been carried out—the death sentences of political prisoners Ali Fattah and Mohammad Naqizadeh were upheld by the Supreme Court, after which they were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison.
Two other political prisoners, Ali Kamali and Peyman Ganji, have also been transferred from Greater Tehran Prison to Ghezel Hesar Prison. Peyman Ganji, a 23-year-old arrested during the January uprising this year, was sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
As previously emphasised, Ghezel Hesar Prison serves as the principal execution centre in Tehran Province and is regarded as one of the government’s main execution sites. Many death row prisoners are held there, and those transferred to the prison face an imminent risk of execution.
In response to the escalating wave of executions of political prisoners and the danger facing five individuals—Alireza Mardasi, Masoud Jamei, Reza Abdali, Farshad Etemadifar, and Hassan Mosallavi—Amnesty International has called for the immediate halt of their executions and those of other prisoners in Iran.
We, the members of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, call for the immediate cessation of executions and urge all people of conscience, along with political, human rights, civil society, and labour activists, to condemn these executions in every possible way and take meaningful action to stop them.
Freedom, equality, and the preservation of human dignity cannot be realised without protecting the right to life. We call upon all opponents of the death penalty to unite in solidarity and collective action to dismantle the structures of despotism and break the cycle of state-sanctioned killing.
On Tuesday, 16 June 2026, during its 125th week, participants in the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign are observing a hunger strike in the following 56 prisons:
Evin Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison (Karaj), Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison (Varamin), Choobindar Prison (Qazvin), Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Prison (Qom), Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison (Isfahan), Dastgerd Prison (Isfahan), Sheiban Prison (Ahvaz), Sepidar Prison (Ahvaz, men’s and women’s wards), Nezam Prison (Shiraz), Adel Abad Prison (Shiraz, men’s and women’s wards), Firuzabad Prison (Fars), Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaem Shahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Havigh Prison (Talesh), Azbarom Prison (Lahijan), Dizel Abad 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.
Week 125
Tuesday, 16 June 2026