{"id":6592,"date":"2025-08-19T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:14:30","slug":"six-protest-gatherings-held-concurrently-with-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-in-49-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/prisoner\/six-protest-gatherings-held-concurrently-with-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-in-49-prisons","title":{"rendered":"Six Protest Gatherings Held Concurrently with Political Prisoners\u2019 Hunger Strike in 49 Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"720\"><strong data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"195\">19 August 2025<\/strong><br data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"198\" \/><strong data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"270\">News group: Protests \u2013 Pensioners \u2013 Prisoners \u2013 Workers and Guilds \u2013<\/strong><br data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"273\" \/><strong>Breathing in Confinement <\/strong>\u2013 Alongside the hunger strike and the eighty-second week of the <em data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"402\">\u201cTuesdays Against the Death Penalty\u201d<\/em> 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\u2019 strike. On the same day, five other protests were held by different sectors of society.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"828\">According to the campaign\u2019s statement, political prisoners in below mentioned 49 prisons were\u00a0 on hunger strike on Tuesday, 19 August:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"828\">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\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Shiraz Nezam Prison, Adelabad Prison (Shiraz, men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Firouzabad Prison (Fars), Zahedan Prison (women\u2019s 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\u2019s and women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"828\">In their statement, the political prisoners emphasized that:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1934\">The continued lack of information regarding five political prisoners sentenced to death and members of this campaign \u2013\u00a0<strong data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1759\">Vahid Beni-Amrian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi, and Akbar (Shahrokh) Danshvar Kar<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 along with a political-security prisoner also sentenced to death,\u00a0<strong data-start=\"1828\" data-end=\"1846\">Babak Shahbazi<\/strong>, is a clear sign of gross human rights violations and mounting pressure on prisoners.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1936\" data-end=\"2201\">In addition, the Supreme Court\u2019s confirmation of the death sentence against political prisoner\u00a0<strong data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2053\">Sharifeh Mohammadi<\/strong>\u00a0once again exposes the absence of justice and the cruelty of the judiciary of an execution-driven regime that has lost all legitimacy in society.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"873\">\n<p data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"873\"><strong data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"871\">Other protests on Tuesday, 19 August:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"1991\">\n<li data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"1075\">\n<p data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"1075\"><strong data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"919\">Razi Petrochemical workers in Mahshahr<\/strong> entered the eleventh day of their strike, protesting unpaid wages, wage discrimination, and broken promises by officials regarding special zone benefits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1451\">\n<p data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1451\"><strong data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1149\">Retirees of Social Security, Telecommunications, and Civil Service<\/strong> gathered in Kermanshah to protest harsh living conditions, rising prices, inflation, and low pensions. They chanted slogans such as <em data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1344\">\u201cInflation and rising prices are destroying people\u2019s lives,\u201d<\/em> <em data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1397\">\u201cOur wages are in rials, our expenses in dollars,\u201d<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1449\">\u201cOnly in the streets will we win our rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1593\">\n<p data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1593\"><strong data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1496\">A group of Mahshahr municipal workers<\/strong> held a strike and protest over two months of unpaid wages and deteriorating living conditions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1780\">\n<p data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1780\"><strong data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1620\">Import truck owners<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1991\">\n<p data-start=\"1784\" data-end=\"1991\"><strong data-start=\"1784\" data-end=\"1869\">A group of dismissed workers from the Iran Industrial Projects Management Company<\/strong> at Phase 14 of South Pars went on strike and protested against the dismissal of 90 colleagues, demanding reinstatement.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 August 2025News group: Protests &ndash; Pensioners &ndash; Prisoners &ndash; Workers and Guilds &ndash;Breathing in Confinement &ndash; Alongside the hunger strike and the eighty-second week of the &ldquo;Tuesdays Against the Death Penalty&rdquo; campaign by political prisoners in 49 prisons across the country, families of political prisoners sentenced to death also held a protest gathering to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,3,1013,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-and-guilds","category-prisoner","category-protesters","category-retirees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1Ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions\/6594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}