Ninety-Fourth Week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign Across 54 Prisons
11-November-2025
Category: Prisoners
11 November 2025
News Category: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement – The political prisoners’ “Tuesdays Against Execution” hunger-strike campaign continued into its ninety-fourth week across 54 prisons nationwide.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on the eve of the anniversary of the bloody November 2019 uprising, and as the state persists in its cycle of repression and executions, the campaign took another step in solidarity and resistance with the joining of the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison in its ninety-fourth week. Participants in this campaign stand against the ruthless machinery of death; with every “no to execution”, they defend the right to life, human dignity, and the demand to end decades of state violence and killing. In a time when death has become an instrument to terrorise society, these voices reaffirm that life and freedom cannot be hanged into silence.
The full statement for the ninety-fourth week of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign begins with:
The expansion of the campaign in its ninety-fourth week across 54 prisons, following the joining of the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison, and on the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, with remembrance of those who were massacred by the authoritarian regime.
Since the establishment of the Velayat-e Faqih dictatorship in February 1979, through the November 2019 uprising, the nationwide 2022 uprising, and into the present day, the people of Iran have paid an immense price in their struggle for freedom and human dignity. Decades of repression, discrimination, and killings have failed to extinguish their determination for liberation.
In recent days, Reza Abdali, a political prisoner and an Ahwazi Arab compatriot, has been issued a death sentence. We call for the immediate revocation of this sentence and an end to the cycle of death in Iran’s prisons.
In another development on Monday, two security-related death-row prisoners, Ehsan Afrashteh and Mehdi Farid, were beaten and transferred from Ward 7 of Evin Prison to an undisclosed location. Although political prisoners attempted to prevent the transfer, there are grave concerns that the sentences may be carried out.
At a time when demands for justice are met with imprisonment, torture, and executions, the social reverberations of unrestrained repression among the most deprived communities have manifested painfully in acts of self-immolation—desperate protests that come from the depth of suffering.
This week brought news of the death of Kurosh Kheyri, a driver for the Khorramabad Education Department, who self-immolated in protest after being dismissed from his job. We also learned of the harrowing self-immolation of Ahmad Baledi, an Ahwazi student who set himself on fire in protest after his kiosk was demolished—events that have deeply shaken our consciences. These cases are tragic examples of the voiceless cries of people whose only remaining means of protest, under immense pressure and humiliation, has become their own lives.
In these highly volatile, critical, and turbulent days in Iran, the regime has intensified executions to an extreme degree. Since 20 October this year alone, 165 people have been executed. In the past week, 72 people—including one woman—were executed, and on 3 and 4 November alone, 29 individuals were hanged.
Additionally, from 20 March 2025 until now, more than 1,313 executions have taken place in Iran—an alarming figure that reflects the normalisation of death under systemic injustice.
The “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign reiterates that no government can silence the voices of truth, justice, and freedom through executions, and it calls on all conscientious individuals to turn the cry of “No to Execution” into a powerful wave across every city and street.
Inaction or silence is equivalent to allowing innocent and defenceless people to be killed in the prisons of the tyrannical and blood-soaked Velayat-e Faqih regime.
Standing with the people of Iran, prisoners resist the machinery of fear and terror. In the ninety-fourth week of the campaign’s hunger strike, the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison has joined “Tuesdays No to Execution”.
On Tuesday, 11 November 2025, the campaign’s ninety-fourth week, hunger-strike participants are located in the following 54 prisons:
Evin Prison (Wards 6 and 7), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Choubindar Qazvin Prison, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Qom Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Esfahan Prison, Dastgerd Esfahan Prison, Sheiban Ahvaz Prison, Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Nezam Shiraz Prison, Adelabad Shiraz Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Firuzabad Fars Prison, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison, Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Mashhad Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Haviq Talesh Prison, Azbarom Lahijan Prison, Dieselabad Kermanshah Prison, 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, Kamyaran Prison, and Ilam Prison.
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