Hunger strike of “No to Execution Tuesdays” in 54 prisons, concurrent with 14 protest gatherings
29-October-2025
Category: Labor and guilds، Prisoners
28 October 2025
News category: Prisoners – Workers and Guilds
Breathing in Confinement – Concurrent with the “No to Execution Tuesday” hunger strike in 54 prisons across the country, at least 14 protest gatherings were held by various groups of people in different parts of Iran.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, families of political prisoners gathered to protest the issuance and confirmation of execution sentences for their loved ones, supporting the “No to Execution Tuesday” campaign and calling for the immediate halt of all executions.
At the same time, the “No to Execution Tuesday” campaign entered its 92nd consecutive week, expanding to 54 prisons nationwide with the participation of inmates in Ilam and Borujerd prisons. This campaign has now become a symbol of endurance and solidarity in the face of state violence and intimidation.
In their statement, political prisoners declared that October was the bloodiest in recent decades—a month during which seven political prisoners, seven women, and two child offenders were executed. They condemned the new and confirmed death sentences, including those for Manouchehr Fallah, Ehsan Faridi, Kavous Abdollahzadeh, and Zahra Tabari, and reaffirmed their determination to continue resisting until the complete abolition of the death penalty.
This week’s hunger strike took place in the following prisons:
Evin (wards 6 and 7), Ghezel Hesar (units 2, 3, and 4), Central Karaj, Fardis Karaj, Greater Tehran, Qarchak, Khorin Varamin, Choobindar Qazvin, Ahar, Arak, Langroud, Qom, Khorramabad, Yasouj, Asadabad and Dastgerd Isfahan, Sheyban and Sepidar Ahvaz (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam and Adelabad Shiraz, Firouzabad Fars, Dehdasht, Zahedan (women’s ward), Borazjan, Ramhormoz, Behbahan, Bam, Yazd, Kahnouj, Tabas, Mashhad, Sabzevar, Gonbad-e Kavous, Qaemshahr, Rasht (women’s and men’s wards), Roudsar, Haviq Talesh, Azbarom Lahijan, Dizelabad Kermanshah, Ardabil, Tabriz, Urmia, Salmas, Khoy, Naqadeh, Miandoab, Mahabad, Boukan, Saqqez, Baneh, Marivan, Kamyaran, Borujerd, and Ilam.
In Kermanshah, national and social security pensioners held a protest over worsening living conditions, low wages, discrimination, and structural corruption. They also expressed solidarity with the “No to Execution Tuesday” campaign, chanting slogans such as:
“Carrying out executions is a betrayal of the Qur’an,”
“Iran without executions,” and
“They plundered Iran and ruined our lives.”
At Yazdanpanah University of Sanandaj and Mohaghegh Ardabili University, students protested against the poor quality of cafeteria food by placing their meal trays on the ground, demanding immediate improvements in nutrition and campus facilities.
In Ahvaz, retired oil industry workers demonstrated over economic hardship, government interference in the pension fund, inflation, and unpaid arrears, chanting:
“Our salaries are in rials, our expenses in dollars,”
Nurses in Yasouj gathered to protest seven months of unpaid wages and demanded immediate fulfilment of the Ministry of Health’s promises.
In Arak, residents marched against the use of mazut fuel in the Shazand power plant and the resulting severe air pollution, chanting:
“Clean air is my right.”
In Tabriz, applicants of the National Housing Project in Baghmisheh protested construction delays and officials’ lack of response by gathering in front of the project site.
In Qarchak, shareholder workers of the Sabet Brick Factory protested the confiscation of the factory’s land by the Road and Urban Development Department, demanding restoration of their legal rights.
In Assaluyeh, contract workers of the Pars South Oil and Gas Company in refineries one to five held a protest, demanding a review of the job classification plan, implementation of the rotational (two weeks on, two weeks off) work system, regulation of contract drivers’ conditions, and payment of camp and transport allowances.
Finally, workers of the Kangan Gas Refinery held a protest calling for full payment of wages and severance, removal of wage caps, refund of illegal tax deductions, and full enforcement of Article 10 of the Labour Law.