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7 October 2025
\nCategory: Political prisoners\u2019 hunger strike \u2013<\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement \u2013 The 89th week of the \u201cTuesdays: No to Executions\u201d campaign was held across 52 prisons nationwide on the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty.<\/p>\n
As the world moves towards abolishing this inhuman punishment, Iran\u2019s regime continues to seek its survival in the shadow of executions. While human rights are founded on the inherent dignity of every person and the right to life is the most fundamental of rights, Iran\u2019s judicial and political system persists in using death as an instrument to intimidate and silence dissent. Execution has no place in the lexicon of justice; history shows it neither eradicates crime nor restores society\u2019s peace. It perpetuates the cycle of violence, deepens social wounds, and ultimately ensnares those who wield it.<\/p>\n
These days, the memories of lives taken\u2014freedom-seekers and defenceless yet steadfast political prisoners\u2014are not only reminders of suffering and courage but a call to awaken our collective conscience. The \u201cTuesdays: No to Executions\u201d campaign is the echo of that conscience: a human voice against structural injustice. Today more than ever, opposing the death penalty is not just a legal position but a moral and human duty\u2014a duty to protect life, freedom, and human dignity.<\/p>\n
Statement by political prisoners<\/p>\n
We begin the 89th week of the \u201cTuesdays: No to Executions\u201d campaign on the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as the international community strives for complete abolition\u2014or at least a substantial reduction\u2014of capital punishment. In Iran, however, not only has the death penalty not been abolished or reduced, but the ruling system breaks new records of brutality and execution day after day.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, 4 October, six Arab political prisoners\u2014Ali Mojaddam, Mohammad-Reza Moghaddam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Ghabishavi, Seyyed-Salem Mousavi\u2014and the Kurdish political prisoner Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh were executed. On the same day, the death sentence of political prisoner Mohammad-Javad Vafaee-Sani was upheld by the Supreme Court for the third time.<\/p>\n
The number of executions over the past year\u2014from 1 October 2024 to today\u2014has reached 1,695. Since the start of 1404 (20 March 2025), 957 people have been executed in just six and a half months. We must acknowledge that we are unaware of many executions; the real figures are likely far higher. This is only a portion of the crimes of the execution-driven state.<\/p>\n
According to a recent report by Amnesty International, by the end of December 2024, 113 countries had completely removed the death penalty from their laws, and 145 countries had halted executions in law or practice. In Iran, however, the shadow of death grows darker by the day.<\/p>\n
We all know that in Iran, execution is not merely a punishment; it is a tool for intimidation and terror in a society on the brink. In the eyes of this government, every protest and every protester must be cowed with execution and imprisonment. That is why today \u201cNo to Executions\u201d is among the common slogans of all protesters\u2014teachers, pensioners, workers, and students.<\/p>\n
Finally, we congratulate all dear teachers on World Teachers\u2019 Day and honour the memory of Sammad Behrangi and Farzad Kamangar\u2014teachers who taught lessons of freedom and equality in Iran\u2019s history and ultimately gave their lives for it.<\/p>\n
We in the \u201cTuesdays: No to Executions\u201d campaign, affirming that the death penalty brings neither justice nor deterrence and only institutionalises violence, call on all awakened consciences\u2014civil activists, writers, artists, teachers, pensioners, and workers\u2014to raise their voices louder against executions so that the principal instrument of repression and suffocation is taken from this execution-driven state. Only then will the path to justice and freedom be cleared.<\/p>\n
\u201cTuesdays: No to Executions\u201d \u2013 Tuesday, 7 October 2025<\/p>\n
In the 89th week, hunger strikes are ongoing in the following 52 prisons:<\/p>\n
Evin; Ghezel Hesar (Units 3 & 4); Karaj Central; Fardis (Karaj); Greater Tehran; Qarchak; Khorin (Varamin); Choubindar (Qazvin); Ahar; Arak; Langeroud (Qom); Khorramabad; Yasuj; Asadabad (Isfahan); Dastgerd (Isfahan); Sheyban (Ahvaz); Sepidar (Ahvaz \u2013 women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards); Nezam (Shiraz); Adelabad (Shiraz \u2013 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); Azbarom (Lahijan); Dizelabad (Kermanshah); Ardabil; Tabriz; Urmia; Salmas; Khoy; Naqadeh; Miandoab; Mahabad; Bukan; Saqqez; Baneh; Marivan; Sanandaj; Kamyaran.<\/p>\n
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