81st Week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign in 49 Prisons Against the Machinery of Execution
12-August-2025
Category: Prisoners
12 August 2025
News Group: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement – While the execution machinery of the Islamic Republic relentlessly takes lives, the voice of resistance rises from behind bars and from within 49 prisons across the country. In the 81st week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, political prisoners — through a hunger strike, in memory of Behrooz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, and alongside the families of political prisoners sentenced to death — declare that in the face of executions and repression, silence is not an option. This statement is an echo of collective solidarity and steadfastness against the merciless cycle of executions.
Statement of the prisoners participating in the 81st week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign:
Hunger strike of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign in its 81st week in 49 different prisons:
While executions and repression in Iran have intensified, and following the transfer of political prisoners from the Greater Tehran Prison to Evin Prison, we are witnessing the sudden abduction of five political prisoners previously sentenced to death — Vahid Bani-Amrian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, and Mohammad Taghavi — to Ghezel Hesar Prison, an act that Amnesty International has also strongly condemned.
Two other security prisoners, Babak Shahbazi and Omid Tabari Moghaddam, were also transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison after being beaten. This repressive move is part of the intensifying pressure on political prisoners and the unprecedented rise in the implementation of death sentences in the country.
According to reports, a political prisoner from the Baluch ethnic minority, named Amer Porki Balouchzehi, has been transferred to solitary confinement in Zahedan Prison for execution and is at risk of imminent death. On just 6 August alone, 20 people were executed. Even more shocking, in the past 20 days alone, more than 110 people have been executed in Iran.
Yet, in the face of this wave of executions, the resistance of prisoners and the people continues. The courageous shopkeepers and residents of the city of Semirom shut down their markets and shops in protest against the death sentences of two brothers, Fazel and Mehran Bahramian, making their voices of protest heard loud and clear.
We call on all families of death row prisoners:
1. Do not conceal the issuance of death sentences against your children or relatives — make them widely known in the media.
2. By gathering in public spaces, raise your voices in protest against these inhumane sentences.
The “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign calls on all people of Iran and the world to stand with these families and, with every means and tool at their disposal, rise up against the execution machinery in Iran. Only through uprising, steadfastness, courage, and a collective loud voice can this cycle of death be brought to an end.
In the 81st week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, members of this campaign will go on hunger strike on Tuesday, 12 August 2025, in the following 49 prisons:
Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 3 and 4), Evin Prison, Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison in Karaj, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorrin Prison in Varamin, Choobin Dar Prison in Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison in Isfahan, Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz (men’s and women’s wards), Nezam Prison in Shiraz, Adelabad Prison in Shiraz (men’s and women’s wards), Firouzabad Prison in Fars, Zahedan Prison (women’s ward), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison, Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaem Shahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Roudsar Prison, Haviq Prison in Talesh, Azberam Prison in Lahijan, Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah, Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Miandoab Prison, Mahabad Prison, Boukan Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, Sanandaj Prison, and Kamyaran Prison.
Week 81 – Tuesday, 12 August 2025