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6 May 2025
\nNews category: Protests \u2013 Hunger Strike of Political Prisoners \u2013 Pensioners \u2013 Labour and Guilds
\nBreathing in Confinement \u2013 Tuesday, 6 May 2025<\/p>\n
In the 67th week of the \u201cNo to Executions Tuesdays\u201d campaign, political prisoners in 41 prisons across Iran went on hunger strike. At the same time, families of political prisoners sentenced to death gathered outside Evin Prison demanding a halt to the implementation of execution sentences.<\/p>\n
According to the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran (Breathing in Confinement), the hunger strike took place in the Greater Tehran Prison, Evin (women\u2019s ward, wards 4 and 8), Ghezel Hesar (units 3 and 4), and also in the central prisons of Karaj, Khorramabad, Naqadeh, Khoy, Mashhad, Saqqez, Ardabil, Qaemshahr, Urmia, Marivan, Kamyaran, Baneh, Salmas, Nezam Prison, Adelabad in Shiraz (women and men), Rasht (women and men), Bam, Tabriz, Arak, Kahnuj, Asadabad, Dastgerd in Isfahan, Tabas, Khorin in Varamin, Rudsar, Ahvaz (women and men), Ramhormoz, Talesh, Borazjan, Gonbad-e Kavus, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Miandoab, Azbaram in Lahijan, Zahedan (women\u2019s ward), Behbahan, and Sanandaj.<\/p>\n
In a statement released by the political prisoners, they declared:
\n\u201cIt is essential that international human rights institutions compel their governments to make relations with the Iranian regime conditional on the abolition of the death penalty, because in the hands of this tyranny, executions are more dangerous than any weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Civil and labour protests also continued in other parts of the country:
\n\u2022 Bakers in Tehran, Kermanshah, Isfahan, and Mazandaran Province held protest gatherings due to the non-payment of subsidies and stagnant bread prices.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Retired oil industry workers in Ahvaz rallied outside the pension fund office, protesting government interference with the fund, low wages, poverty, inflation, and unpaid dues. They chanted:
\n\u201cLivelihood, dignity, our undeniable right,\u201d
\n\u201cWe won\u2019t rest until we get our rights,\u201d
\n\u201cA pensioner may die, but won\u2019t accept humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Workers from the oil industry\u2019s welfare restaurant services in Gachsaran protested against job insecurity, demanding clarity on their employment status.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Employees of the Offshore Oil Company at Nasr Oil Platform (Siri region) protested to demand an end to job classification into \u2018technical\u2019 and \u2018support\u2019, the removal of salary caps, correction of wage floors, full implementation of Article 10, and an end to interference with the Oil Pension Fund.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Residents of Ardakan held a protest in front of the local electricity office over repeated power outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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