Six Protest Gatherings Held Concurrently with Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike in 49 Prisons
19-August-2025
Category: Labor and guilds، Prisoners، protesters، Retirees
19 August 2025
News group: Protests – Pensioners – Prisoners – Workers and Guilds –
Breathing in Confinement – Alongside the hunger strike and the eighty-second week of the “Tuesdays Against the Death Penalty” campaign by political prisoners in 49 prisons across the country, families of political prisoners sentenced to death also held a protest gathering to denounce death sentences against their children and to support the prisoners’ strike. On the same day, five other protests were held by different sectors of society.
According to the campaign’s statement, political prisoners in below mentioned 49 prisons were on hunger strike on Tuesday, 19 August:
Evin Prison, Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 3 and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison (Karaj), Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Choobindar Prison (Qazvin), Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison (Isfahan), Dastgerd Prison (Isfahan), Sheiban Prison (Ahvaz), Sepidar Prison (Ahvaz, men’s and women’s wards), Shiraz Nezam Prison, Adelabad Prison (Shiraz, men’s and women’s wards), Firouzabad Prison (Fars), Zahedan Prison (women’s ward), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison, Kahnouj Prison, Tabas Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gonbad Kavous Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Roodsar Prison, Haviq (Talesh) Prison, Azbarm (Lahijan) Prison, Dizelabad Prison (Kermanshah), Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Miandoab Prison, Mahabad Prison, Boukan Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Mariwan Prison, Sanandaj Prison, and Kamyaran Prison.
In their statement, the political prisoners emphasized that:
The continued lack of information regarding five political prisoners sentenced to death and members of this campaign – Vahid Beni-Amrian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi, and Akbar (Shahrokh) Danshvar Kar – along with a political-security prisoner also sentenced to death, Babak Shahbazi, is a clear sign of gross human rights violations and mounting pressure on prisoners.
In addition, the Supreme Court’s confirmation of the death sentence against political prisoner Sharifeh Mohammadi once again exposes the absence of justice and the cruelty of the judiciary of an execution-driven regime that has lost all legitimacy in society.
Other protests on Tuesday, 19 August:
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Razi Petrochemical workers in Mahshahr entered the eleventh day of their strike, protesting unpaid wages, wage discrimination, and broken promises by officials regarding special zone benefits.
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Retirees of Social Security, Telecommunications, and Civil Service gathered in Kermanshah to protest harsh living conditions, rising prices, inflation, and low pensions. They chanted slogans such as “Inflation and rising prices are destroying people’s lives,” “Our wages are in rials, our expenses in dollars,” and “Only in the streets will we win our rights.”
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A group of Mahshahr municipal workers held a strike and protest over two months of unpaid wages and deteriorating living conditions.
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Import truck owners staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, denouncing two years of limbo, obstruction of truck clearance, and unanswered demands.
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A group of dismissed workers from the Iran Industrial Projects Management Company at Phase 14 of South Pars went on strike and protested against the dismissal of 90 colleagues, demanding reinstatement.