Breathing in Confinement

October 30, 2024
News Category: Protests – Retirees – Prisoners

Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, October 29, at least 32 protests and demonstrations took place.

According to the Statistical Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran Breathing in Confinement), in the 40th week of political prisoners’ hunger strike across 24 prisons under the campaign “Tuesdays Protest Against the Death Penalty,” political prisoners in Greater Tehran Prison, Evin Prison (women’s ward, wards 4, 6, and 8), Ghezel Hesar Prison (units 3 and 4), and prisons in Karaj, Khorramabad, Naqadeh, Khoy, Mashhad, Saqqez, Ardabil, Qaemshahr, Urmia, Marivan, Kamiyaran, Baneh, Salmas, Shiraz, Rasht, Bam, Tabriz, Arak, Kahnooj, and Esfahan’s Asadabad Prison continued their Tuesday hunger strikes in protest against the death penalty.

Alongside the 40th week of the hunger strike by political prisoners protesting executions, people and families of prisoners sentenced to death gathered in front of Parliament in Tehran to protest the executions, calling for the cancellation and suspension of death sentences. Protesters chanted slogans such as “Stop executions” and “No to execution.”

People with disabilities gathered in front of Parliament in Tehran to protest the non-implementation of Article 27 of the relevant law and the lack of a 20% increase in disability pensions. They chanted, “Decent livelihood is our fundamental right / No charity, no favor, we want our rights with dignity.”

Shareholders of Shahin Khodro Company in Tehran gathered in protest over spending two years in uncertain condition  and the non-delivery of their vehicles.

Retired teachers gathered in front of the Management Organization in Yazd and in Hamadan in front of the Retirement Fund, protesting the non-implementation of ranking policies. They demanded wage increases to meet the poverty line, free healthcare, improved welfare services, bank facilities, and fulfillment of their other demands. Retirees chanted slogans such as “Retirees, shout out, demand your rights / Unity against oppression and corruption / Implement pay adjustments without deceit.”

Medical students at Yazd University of Medical Sciences held a demonstration to protest a 200% increase in tuition fees at Islamic Azad University.

Contract workers of Petrochemical Terminals and Storage in Bandar Mahshahr protested the authorities’ failure to fulfill promises of job security improvements. They demanded the implementation of a job classification plan, payment of petro-cards, and fulfillment of their other demands.

Workers at the fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth refineries of the South Pars Gas Complex held protests, demanding the removal of salary caps, adjustments to minimum wages, elimination of retirement benefit limits, full implementation of Article 10 of the Oil Law, non-separation of jobs in operational areas, reimbursement of overpaid taxes, and attention to their other demands.