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29 April 2025
\nNews Category: Protests \u2013 Political Prisoners\u2019 Hunger Strike \u2013 Retirees
\nBreathing in Confinement \u2013 On Tuesday, 29 April 2025, during the 66th week of the political prisoners\u2019 hunger strike across 41 prisons in Iran, families of political prisoners sentenced to death held a protest in front of Evin Prison. Meanwhile, a group of citizens in Bukan also staged a demonstration against death sentences.<\/p>\n
According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, Breathing in Confinement, the hunger strike in the 66th week of the \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d campaign expanded to include prisoners from Sanandaj Prison, bringing the total number of participating prisons to 41. Simultaneously, families of political prisoners facing execution gathered outside Evin Prison to protest the death sentences of their loved ones and demanded an end to executions. In Bukan, citizens protested against the issuance and enforcement of execution sentences.<\/p>\n
Political prisoners issued a statement extending their condolences to the families of the victims of the horrific explosion in Bandar Abbas, blaming the oppressive rulers and the terrorist IRGC forces for the tragedy. They also extended greetings on International Workers\u2019 Day and National Teachers\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n
The hunger strike took place in the following prisons: Greater Tehran, Evin (women\u2019s ward, wards 4 and 8), Ghezel Hesar (units 3 and 4), Central Prisons of Karaj, Khorramabad, Naqadeh, Khoy, Mashhad, Saqqez, Ardabil, Qaem Shahr, Urmia, Marivan, Kamyaran, Baneh, Salmas, Military Prison and Adelabad in Shiraz (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Rasht (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Bam, Tabriz, Arak, Kahnouj, Asadabad, Dastgerd Isfahan, Tabas, Khurin Varamin, Rudsar, Ahvaz (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Ramhormoz, Talesh, Borazjan, Gonbad-e Kavus, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Miandoab, Azbarm Lahijan, women\u2019s ward in Zahedan, Behbahan, and Sanandaj.<\/p>\n
In Yasuj, people protested in front of the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Governor\u2019s Office over the lack of basic infrastructure such as drinking water, roads, and educational facilities.<\/p>\n
Oil industry retirees gathered outside the Retirement Fund office in Ahvaz to protest government interference in the fund, poverty, high inflation, low pensions, and unpaid arrears. Their slogans included: \u201cCondolences to the people of Bandar Abbas,\u201d \u201cOur fund is private\u2014government, stay out,\u201d \u201cWhat happened to our well-funded retirement fund?\u201d \u201cThe oil fund is a trust\u2014respect the trust,\u201d \u201cLivelihood and dignity are our absolute rights,\u201d \u201cA retiree\u2019s pay only lasts a week,\u201d \u201cWe will never give up,\u201d and \u201cFree healthcare is our right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farmers in Garmsar and Aradan held protests over the unfair distribution of water and the denial of their legal water rights from the Namrud Dam, despite the dam\u2019s sufficient capacity.<\/p>\n
In Dezful, Bakhtiari citizens gathered in front of the governor\u2019s office demanding the revocation of execution sentences for two inmates, Karim Farokhvand and Mahmoud Ostadmamzayi, even though the plaintiffs had already pardoned them.<\/p>\n
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