“Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign salutes the Ghezel Hesar prisoners and calls on the international community to act to stop the executions
21-October-2025
Category: Prisoners
21 October 2025
News group: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement – The “Tuesdays Against Executions” hunger strike by political prisoners was held for its ninety-first week across 52 prisons in the country.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign, initiated by a group of political prisoners, has entered its ninety-first week in protest at the widespread and unrelenting wave of executions in Iran. This protest action, which continues every Tuesday with the aim of confronting the policy of execution and repression by the ruling system, is the voice of resistance by prisoners, their families, and all freedom-seekers who are standing against state violence and the continual violation of human rights. In the latest statement from this campaign—referring to the successful hunger strike by prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison—it is recalled that these prisoners, through their hunger strike, carried a cry from the depths of the darkness of the prisons to society’s ears: a strike not only against hunger, but against death and injustice. In their statement, the political prisoners emphasised the necessity of urgent action by international bodies to stop the cycle of executions and killings in Iran.
Full text of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign statement:
Continuation of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign in its ninety-first week across 52 different prisons
Support for the hunger-striking prisoners in Ghezel Hesar
As the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign enters its ninety-first week, the prisoners of Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, after a week-long hunger strike and with the slogan “No to executions,” stood up against group executions and the regime’s repression and managed to have six of their cellmates—who had been taken to solitary for execution—returned to the ward. For each of them, this widespread hunger strike was, in effect, a march toward death, and under the implementation of sentences by this medieval regime, their resistance could have hastened the execution of any one of them.
Subsequently, on Sunday, 19 October, their families, by gathering in front of the regime’s parliament, raised their voices against repressive policies and executions.
These are cries and acts of resistance against a misanthropic government that savagely carries out mass executions, such that in just the past week 59 people—including two women and one juvenile offender—were executed. In the past month, the regime has executed 232 prisoners. Thus, the number of executions since 20 March 2025 has surpassed 1,087.
Along the same lines, this execution-driven and criminal regime, on the most recent Saturday, hanged a prisoner in Qom Prison on a regime-fabricated charge of contact with hostile states.
Frightened of uprising and revolution, the execution-driven regime is trying through ruthless repression to silence the cries and the uprising of the people in Iran’s cities. But what a vain delusion! The death-row prisoners of Ghezel Hesar and their families have shown they have nothing to lose and are determined to overturn the gallows and the structures of despotism altogether.
The “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign, while saluting the prisoners of Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar who stood bravely, calls on the international community and human-rights organisations to take concrete, practical, and enforceable measures to prevent the continued killing of prisoners and to be the voice of those sentenced to death—measures such as severing relations with this anti-human regime and opening investigative cases regarding those responsible for torture and killings in Iran.
Inaction in the face of the crimes of this tyranny is, in practice, tantamount to becoming complicit in their crime.
Until the complete halt to executions, we will continue with “Tuesdays Against Executions,” we will be the voice of the prisoners and their families, and we will continue to look to the support of the honourable people of Iran, in whatever way possible and in every alley, street, and city.
Members of the “Tuesdays Against Executions” campaign in week ninety-one will observe a hunger strike on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, in the following 52 prisons:
Evin Prison; Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4); Karaj Central Prison; Fardis Karaj Prison; Greater Tehran Prison; Qarchak Prison; Khorin Varamin Prison; Choubindar (Qazvin) Prison; Ahar Prison; Arak Prison; Langarud (Qom) Prison; Khorramabad Prison; Yasuj Prison; Asadabad (Isfahan) Prison; Dastgerd (Isfahan) Prison; Sheyban (Ahvaz) Prison; Sepidar (Ahvaz) Prison (Women’s and Men’s); Nezam (Shiraz) Prison; Adelabad (Shiraz) Prison (Women’s and Men’s); Firuzabad (Fars) Prison; Dehdasht Prison; Zahedan Prison (Women’s Ward); Borazjan Prison; Ramhormoz Prison; Behbahan Prison; Bam Prison; Yazd Prison; Kahnooj Prison; Tabas Prison; Mashhad Prison; Sabzevar Prison; Gonbad-e Kavus Prison; Qaemshahr Prison; Rasht Prison (Men’s and Women’s); Rudsar Prison; Haviq (Talesh) Prison; Azbarom (Lahijan) Prison; Dizelabad (Kermanshah) Prison; Ardabil Prison; Tabriz Prison; Urmia Prison; Salmas Prison; Khoy Prison; Naqadeh Prison; Miandoab Prison; Mahabad Prison; Bukan Prison; Saqqez Prison; Baneh Prison; Marivan Prison; Sanandaj Prison; Kamyaran Prison.
Week Ninety-One
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
“Tuesdays Against Executions” Campaign