Ninety-Third Week of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” Campaign in 54 Prisons4 November 2025
5-November-2025
Category: Prisoners
News Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement — The “Tuesdays Against Executions” hunger strike by political prisoners was held this week for the ninety-third time, spanning 54 prisons across the country.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the ninety-third week of the campaign has become a symbol of human resilience in the face of oppression. In its ninety-third consecutive week, it echoes the cry of “no to killing for opposing the authorities, and no to state execution,” rising from fifty-four prisons and merging with the voices of people in the streets. While the regime’s execution machine relentlessly takes defenceless lives, prisoners—with bound hands but steadfast resolve—cry out for life, justice and freedom. The prisoners’ statement is not merely a report of a continuing campaign; it is testimony to a vigilant conscience that stands against the normalisation of death and calls on the international community not to turn a blind eye, but to stand with the people of Iran and amplify the clear, human demand for “an Iran without executions.”
Statement of the prisoners participating in the campaign during Week Ninety-Three:
Continuation of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign in Week Ninety-Three in fifty-four prisons
“We begin the ninety-third week while the execution machine of the regime’s religious fascism is racing ahead without brakes. After the one-week hunger strike by prisoners in Ward 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, executions—especially in other prisons—have continued at speed. In just the past 12 days, at least 76 prisoners have been executed. In response, cries of ‘No to Execution’ are being heard from across the country.
Last week, retirees in Kermanshah also chanted ‘No to Execution’ during their protests. They shouted: ‘Carrying out the death penalty is a betrayal of the Qur’an’ and ‘Iran without executions!’
Last week, Ms Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and Ms Sara Hossain, Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, highlighted the widespread violations of the right to life in Iran and the existence of secret executions—only 8% of which are officially reported.
Members of the ‘Tuesdays Against Executions’ campaign in fifty-four different prisons continue to stand firm against executions and call on all prisoners—especially those on death row—not to remain silent in the face of this unjust punishment. We also call on families and the people of Iran not to allow this killing to continue in silence; publish the names of those sentenced to death and, by shouting ‘No to Execution’ in every possible way in the streets and alleys, confront this state crime.
On Tuesday, 4 November 2025, in Week Ninety-Three, the following 54 prisons will be on hunger strike:
Evin, Ghezel Hesar (Wards 2, 3, 4), Karaj Central, Fardis (Karaj), Greater Tehran, Qarchak, Khorin Varamin, Chubindar Qazvin, Ahar, Arak, Langarud Qom, Khorramabad, Borujerd, Yasuj, Asadabad Isfahan, Dastgerd Isfahan, Sheiban Ahvaz, Sepidar Ahvaz (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Shiraz, Adelabad Shiraz (women’s and men’s wards), Firuzabad (Fars), Dehdasht, Zahedan (women’s ward), Borazjan, Ramhormoz, Behbahan, Bam, Yazd, Kahnooj, Tabas, Mashhad, Sabzevar, Gonbad-e Kavus, Qaemshahr, Rasht (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar, Haviq (Talesh), Azbarom Lahijan, Dizelabad Kermanshah, Ardabil, Tabriz, Urmia, Salmas, Khoy, Naqadeh, Miandoab, Mahabad, Bukan, Saqqez, Baneh, Marivan, Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Ilam.”
Week Ninety-Three — Tuesday, 4 November 2025