{"id":6872,"date":"2025-09-30T19:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:11:48","slug":"tuesdays-against-executions-hunger-strike-by-political-prisoners-in-memory-of-somayeh-rashidi-and-a-cry-against-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/hunger-strike-of-political-prisoners\/tuesdays-against-executions-hunger-strike-by-political-prisoners-in-memory-of-somayeh-rashidi-and-a-cry-against-executions","title":{"rendered":"Tuesdays Against Executions\u201d Hunger Strike by Political Prisoners: In Memory of Somayeh Rashidi and a Cry Against Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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30 September 2025<\/strong>
News group: Hunger Strikes by Political Prisoners \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 The \u201cTuesdays Against Executions\u201d hunger strike by political prisoners was held in its eighty-eighth week across 52 prisons<\/strong> nationwide.<\/p>\n

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, at a time when harrowing reports from Iranian prisons shake the human conscience, the memory of Somayeh Rashidi<\/strong>, a political prisoner deprived of medical care, has become a symbol of the defencelessness of those whose most basic rights are trampled under neglect and repression. Her wrongful death is not only a deep wound for society, but also clear evidence of a policy that targets prisoners\u2019 lives through deprivation and compounded suffering.<\/p>\n

Alongside this grief, the continued issuance and implementation of death sentences against both political and ordinary prisoners \u2014 including Bahman Chubi Asl<\/strong>, Hamed Validi<\/strong>, Nima Shahi<\/strong>, and Peyman Farahavar<\/strong> \u2014 paints a terrifying picture of systematic human-rights violations in Iran. This trajectory is not justice; it is a tool of intimidation and the silencing of dissent. Defending human dignity and resisting the cycle of death and injustice is our human responsibility. Through unity and collective protest, it is possible to halt the machinery of execution and repression and to envision a more humane future for Iran.<\/p>\n

Statement by the political prisoners:<\/strong>
The 88th week of the \u2018Tuesdays Against Executions\u2019 campaign in 52 prisons<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week, once again with profound sorrow and boundless solidarity, we stand in memory of Somayeh Rashidi<\/strong>, a political prisoner who lost her life due to the denial of medical care. This wrongful death is part of a policy of \u2018slow killing\u2019 of prisoners and a stark warning about the situation of the sick in the country\u2019s prisons \u2014 people deprived of the most basic human rights. Members of the \u2018Tuesdays Against Executions\u2019 campaign express their heartfelt condolences to her family and friends.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the execution of Bahman Chubi Asl<\/strong> on espionage charges in an opaque process on 29 September<\/strong>; the issuance of death sentences for two political prisoners, Hamed Validi<\/strong> and Nima Shahi<\/strong>, by the Karaj Revolutionary Court; and the Supreme Court\u2019s<\/strong> confirmation of the death sentence for Peyman Farahavar<\/strong> all point to a continuing, troubling pattern of repression and violence against the people of Iran and its prisoners. These unjust sentences are blatant violations of human rights and tools of suppression that must be stopped immediately.<\/p>\n

In this context, the stance taken by Ms Mai Sato<\/strong>, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights, once again drew global attention to the appalling state of Iran\u2019s prisons. The figures \u2014 46 executions<\/strong> in the past week, 190<\/strong> in the past month (unprecedented in the last 35 years<\/strong>), and 871 executions<\/strong> in the first six months of the year 1404<\/strong> (20 March to 20 September<\/strong>) \u2014 present a horrific picture of merciless human-rights violations.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Tuesdays Against Executions\u2019 campaign condemns these crimes and again calls for the immediate halt of death sentences and an end to this inhuman course. Our voice is one of solidarity with all prisoners ensnared by oppression and injustice. As before, while thanking all supporters of the campaign worldwide, we stress that the machinery of execution can be stopped through unity and solidarity.<\/p>\n

Every act of protest against a death sentence is a step towards ending this cruel trajectory. We call on all opponents of the death penalty to raise their voices against these inhuman rulings.<\/p>\n

Members of the \u201cTuesdays Against Executions\u201d campaign staged a hunger strike on Tuesday, 30 September 2025<\/strong>, in the 88th week<\/strong> of the campaign, across 52 prisons<\/strong> in the country: Evin; Ghezel Hesar (Units 3 and 4); Karaj Central; Fardis Karaj; Greater Tehran; Qarchak; Khorin Varamin; Choubindar, Qazvin; Ahar; Arak; Langarud, Qom; Khorramabad; Yasuj; Asadabad, Isfahan; Dastgerd, Isfahan; Sheyban, Ahvaz; Sepidar, Ahvaz (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards); Nezam, Shiraz; Adelabad, Shiraz (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards); Firuzabad, Fars; Dehdasht; Zahedan (women\u2019s ward); Borazjan; Ramhormoz; Behbahan; Bam; Yazd; Kahnuj; Tabas; Mashhad; Sabzevar; Gonbad-e Kavus; Qaemshahr; Rasht (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards); Rudsar; Haviq, Talesh; Azberm, Lahijan; Dizelabad, Kermanshah; Ardabil; Tabriz; Urmia; Salmas; Khoy; Naqadeh; Miandoab; Mahabad; Bukan; Saqqez; Baneh; Marivan; Sanandaj; and Kamyaran.<\/p>\n

Week 88 \u2013 30 September 2025<\/strong>
Tuesdays Against Executions Campaign<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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