Nationwide Protest Against Executions and Injustice in 50 Prisons and 10 Public Gatherings
27-August-2025
Category: Labor and guilds، Prisoners، protesters
26 August 2025
News Category: Protests – Prisoners – Workers and Guilds
Breathing in Confinement – Coinciding with the 83rd week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign, launched by political prisoners in 50 prisons across the country, families of political prisoners sentenced to death also held demonstrations demanding the immediate abolition of death sentences.
In addition, at least nine other protest rallies and actions took place in different parts of the country.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, in a statement marking this week’s campaign, political prisoners condemned the regime’s use of executions and the public hanging of two prisoners (aimed at normalising violence and spreading fear). They also denounced the conversion of Section 41 of Behesht Zahra Cemetery—where thousands of victims of the 1980s massacres are buried—into a car park, describing it as a shameful attempt to erase collective memory and a blatant insult to the victims and their families.
This campaign was held in the following prisons:
Evin; Ghezel Hesar (Units 3 and 4); Karaj Central; Fardis Karaj; Greater Tehran; Qarchak; Khorrin Varamin; Choubindar Qazvin; Ahar; Arak; Khorramabad; Yasuj; Esfahan Asadabad; Esfahan Dastgerd; Ahvaz Sheyban; Ahvaz Sepidar (men’s and women’s wards); Shiraz Nezam; Shiraz Adelabad (men’s and women’s wards); Firoozabad (Fars); Zahedan (women’s ward); Borazjan; Ramhormoz; Behbahan; Bam; Yazd; Kahnouj; Tabas; Mashhad; Gonbad-e Kavus; Qaem Shahr; Rasht (men’s and women’s wards); Roudsar; Haviq Talesh; Azbarom Lahijan; Dizelabad Kermanshah; Ardabil; Tabriz; Urmia; Salmas; Khoy; Naqadeh; Miandoab; Mahabad; Bukan; Saqqez; Baneh; Marivan; Sanandaj; Kamyaran; and Dehdasht.
Families of political prisoners sentenced to death also held a protest rally, supporting the prisoners’ hunger strike and once again demanding the revocation of these sentences.
Other protests included:
• Hakim Project victims: For the second consecutive day, gathered outside Tehran’s Provincial Judiciary building to protest ten years of uncertainty and judicial support for fraudsters, chanting: “Namdari committed fraud, the law supported it.”
• National Housing applicants in Shahr-e Kord: Rallied against a six-year delay in the delivery of housing units.
• High-voltage electricity workers: Gathered outside the Administrative and Recruitment Organisation in Tehran, demanding full implementation of the parliamentary resolution and payment of special allowances, especially for shift workers.
• Razi Petrochemical workers in Mahshahr: Entered the 19th day of their strike, protesting unpaid wages, wage discrimination, and employer negligence.
• Aghajari Oil and Gas Production Company staff: Held a protest demanding full payment of wages, implementation of operational zone allowances, removal of salary caps, settlement of severance pay, cancellation of unlawful deductions, and full enforcement of Article 10 of the Oil Ministry’s regulations.
• Local workers of Dehloran Petro-Refinery: Marked their 19th day of strike over unpaid wages and wage discrimination. The company’s security has so far prevented five workers from entering the site.
• Kousha Khodro customers: Protested the failure to deliver cars after 13 months and the Ministry of Industry’s negligence.
• Moein Khodro customers: Rallied outside the Ministry of Industry, protesting the company’s violations, including non-delivery of vehicles on time, failure to pay participation profits and late-delivery penalties, overcharging, and refusal to issue official invoices.