Breathing in Confinement: The Voice of Freedom Will Not Be Silenced – Continuation of the “Tuesdays Against Execution” Campaign
26-August-2025
Category: Uncategorized
26 August 2025
News group: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement – In a land overshadowed by executions, resistance still breathes. The “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign is not merely a protest movement but the collective echo of political prisoners who, despite imprisonment, torture, and repression, continue each week to break through prison walls to send the cry for freedom and the right to life to the world.
Today, this campaign has reached its eighty-third consecutive week and continues in 50 prisons nationwide. It is a clear sign of the determination that stands firm against the machinery of death. The joining of prisoners in Dehdasht Prison once again shows that no prisoner and no citizen in Iran is safe from the threat of state executions. This is the voice of lives worn down by injustice, proclaiming:
Execution is neither a solution nor justice. Execution is merely a tool to impose silence and entrench tyranny.
Full statement of the prisoners participating in the 83rd week of the campaign:
“The expansion of the ‘Tuesdays Against Execution’ campaign in its eighty-third week to 50 prisons, with the joining of Dehdasht Prison.”
“In Iran under the rule of Velayat-e Faqih, the machinery of execution continues to claim victims mercilessly. In just the past month, 166 people were hanged. In the past week alone, 31 of our fellow citizens, including one woman, were executed, with two victims hanged in public in Kordkuy and Beyrom, Larestan. The execution-driven regime seeks to humiliate and normalise violence in order to cast society into fear.”
“According to reports, a group of prisoners in Dehdasht Prison joined the campaign in its eighty-third week. The addition of Dehdasht Prison to the list is a stark reminder that no corner of Iran is safe from the shadow of execution.”
“At the same time, we are outraged by another shocking development: the conversion of Section 41 of Behesht Zahra Cemetery (a section that holds the memory of thousands of political prisoners from the 1980s and the unforgettable atrocities of those years) into a parking lot. This act is not only a shameful attempt to erase collective memory and the traces of state crimes, but also a blatant disrespect to victims and their families — an act condemned by Amnesty International.”
The “Tuesdays Against Execution” campaign once again declares:
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Execution is not a solution;
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Execution is a blatant violation of the right to life;
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Execution is a tool for creating fear and consolidating political repression.
This campaign calls on all international bodies, human rights defenders, and people of conscience to stand against this cycle of death and to amplify the voices of the Iranian people in their protest against executions.
On Tuesday, 26 August 2025, prisoners in the following 50 prisons joined the eighty-third week of the campaign with a hunger strike:
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, Azbar0m (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, Kamyaran Prison, and Dehdasht Prison.