Expansion of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” Campaign to 54 Prisons Across the Country in the Ninety-Second Week of Resistance
28-October-2025
Category: Prisoners
28 October 2025
News category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement – The hunger strike of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign by political prisoners, in its ninety-second consecutive week, has expanded to 54 prisons across the country with the joining of the Ilam and Borujerd prisons.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, this expansion comes as the Islamic Republic government, during the past month, has left behind a bloody and horrific record of state violence and has executed at least 283 prisoners – including a number of political, ideological, and security prisoners – in various prisons across the country. This figure marks the highest number of executions in the past four decades and indicates the systematic increase in the use of the death penalty as an instrument of repression and public intimidation.
In such circumstances, the protest campaign “Tuesdays Against Executions” has become a symbol of perseverance and solidarity against the politics of death and fear. Despite severe pressures and life-threatening dangers, prisoners continue this weekly act of protest to make their voices of opposition to executions and injustice heard by society and the world.
The expansion of this campaign shows the depth of discontent and unity among political prisoners, their families, and the freedom-seeking people who are standing up to the repressive regime. “Tuesdays Against Executions” has now turned into a collective outcry against the machinery of execution and the policy of elimination, carrying a clear message from inside the prisons to society and the world:
“No to execution – resistance until the machinery of execution is stopped.”
Full text of the statement for the ninety-second week of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign
Expansion of “Tuesdays Against Executions” to 54 prisons in the ninety-second week with the joining of the Tirche-Blok Borujerd and Ilam prisons
“As we pass the ninety-second week of the Tuesdays Against Executions campaign, the oppressive and execution-driven government, during the past month, has recorded 283 executions in its shameful record – making this the bloodiest month in recent decades.
In this month, seven political prisoners, seven women, and two child offenders were executed.
Since last Tuesday, 59 executions, including two women, have been recorded. This wave of executions has been accompanied by the issuance and confirmation of new death sentences against political prisoners, including the Kurdish political prisoner Kavous Abdollahzadeh; Zahra Tabari in Lakan Prison, Rasht; and also the reaffirmation of death sentences for Manouchehr Fallah and Ehsan Faridi by the Supreme Court.
Last week, the authorities of Evin Prison and security forces attempted to transfer Ehsan Afrashteh from Evin Prison for the execution of his sentence, which was met with the resistance of prisoners, and there remains a possibility that he may be transferred for execution at any moment.
These cruel sentences are an obvious attempt to create terror in society and to silence the voice of the Iranian people’s desire for freedom. The tyrannical government, which for more than 46 years has, through corruption and plundering the resources of the oppressed people – and continues to do so – dragged the country into death and destruction, is still seeking to preserve its power through the tool of execution.
But the people are standing up against this machinery of death and fear. The prisons of Borujerd and Ilam have now joined the ranks of prisons that, in the heart of darkness, keep the flame of protest alive. By joining the Tuesdays Against Executions campaign, they make the voice of resistance heard from behind the high walls of prisons to the whole world.
The bereaved and courageous families of prisoners sentenced to death also, this week, gathered in front of the Parliament and, by chanting ‘No to executions!’, showed that no power can extinguish the flame of love for freedom and the right to life in this land.
We, the members of this campaign, once again declare:
– Execution is a criminal instrument for the survival of tyrannical governments.
– No religious or political justification can legitimise the deprivation of human life.
– Every execution is a new wound on the body of society and a sign of the failure of law, human dignity, and justice.
We call for the immediate halt of all executions, the revocation of all issued death sentences, and unrestricted access of international human rights organisations to prisons and prisoners in Iran.
The Tuesdays Against Executions campaign, on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, is on hunger strike in the following 54 prisons:
Evin Prison (Wards 6 and 7), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison (Kachuei), Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khourin Varamin Prison, Choobin-Dar Qazvin Prison, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langeroud Prison, Qom Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Isfahan Prison, Dastgerd Isfahan Prison, Sheyban Ahvaz Prison, Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Shiraz Military Prison, Adelabad Shiraz Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Firouzabad Fars Prison, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women’s ward), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison, Kahnouj Prison, Tabas Prison, Mashhad Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Roudsar Prison, Hoveyq Talesh Prison, Azbarom Lahijan Prison, Dizelabad Kermanshah Prison, 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, Tirche-Blok Borujerd Prison, and Ilam Prison.”
Ninety-second week
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
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