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28 October 2025<\/strong> Breathing in Confinement \u2013<\/strong> Concurrent with the \u201cNo to Execution Tuesday\u201d hunger strike in 54 prisons across the country, at least 14 protest gatherings were held by various groups of people in different parts of Iran.<\/p>\n According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, families of political prisoners<\/strong> gathered to protest the issuance and confirmation of execution sentences for their loved ones, supporting the \u201cNo to Execution Tuesday\u201d campaign and calling for the immediate halt of all executions.<\/p>\n At the same time, the \u201cNo to Execution Tuesday\u201d campaign entered its 92nd consecutive week, expanding to 54 prisons nationwide<\/strong> with the participation of inmates in Ilam and Borujerd prisons. This campaign has now become a symbol of endurance and solidarity in the face of state violence and intimidation.<\/p>\n In their statement, political prisoners declared that October was the bloodiest in recent decades<\/strong>\u2014a month during which seven political prisoners, seven women, and two child offenders were executed. They condemned the new and confirmed death sentences, including those for Manouchehr Fallah, Ehsan Faridi, Kavous Abdollahzadeh, and Zahra Tabari,<\/strong> and reaffirmed their determination to continue resisting until the complete abolition of the death penalty.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s hunger strike took place in the following prisons: In Kermanshah, national and social security pensioners<\/strong> held a protest over worsening living conditions, low wages, discrimination, and structural corruption. They also expressed solidarity with the \u201cNo to Execution Tuesday\u201d campaign, chanting slogans such as: At Yazdanpanah University of Sanandaj and Mohaghegh Ardabili University,<\/strong> students protested against the poor quality of cafeteria food by placing their meal trays on the ground, demanding immediate improvements in nutrition and campus facilities.<\/p>\n In Ahvaz, retired oil industry workers<\/strong> demonstrated over economic hardship, government interference in the pension fund, inflation, and unpaid arrears, chanting: Nurses in Yasouj<\/strong> gathered to protest seven months of unpaid wages and demanded immediate fulfilment of the Ministry of Health\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n In Arak, residents<\/strong> marched against the use of mazut fuel in the Shazand power plant and the resulting severe air pollution, chanting: In Tabriz, applicants of the National Housing Project in Baghmisheh<\/strong> protested construction delays and officials\u2019 lack of response by gathering in front of the project site.<\/p>\n In Qarchak, shareholder workers of the Sabet Brick Factory<\/strong> protested the confiscation of the factory\u2019s land by the Road and Urban Development Department, demanding restoration of their legal rights.<\/p>\n In Assaluyeh, contract workers of the Pars South Oil and Gas Company in refineries<\/strong> one to five held a protest, demanding a review of the job classification plan, implementation of the rotational (two weeks on, two weeks off) work system, regulation of contract drivers\u2019 conditions, and payment of camp and transport allowances.<\/p>\n Finally, workers of the Kangan Gas Refinery<\/strong> held a protest calling for full payment of wages and severance, removal of wage caps, refund of illegal tax deductions, and full enforcement of Article 10 of the Labour Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 28 October 2025 News category: Prisoners – Workers and Guilds Breathing in Confinement – Concurrent with the “No to Execution Tuesday” hunger strike in 54 prisons across the country, at least 14 protest gatherings were held by various groups of people in different parts of Iran. 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\nNews category: Prisoners \u2013 Workers and Guilds<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEvin (wards 6 and 7), Ghezel Hesar (units 2, 3, and 4), Central Karaj, Fardis Karaj, Greater Tehran, Qarchak, Khorin Varamin, Choobindar Qazvin, Ahar, Arak, Langroud, Qom, Khorramabad, Yasouj, Asadabad and Dastgerd Isfahan, Sheyban and Sepidar Ahvaz (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Nezam and Adelabad Shiraz, Firouzabad Fars, Dehdasht, Zahedan (women\u2019s ward), Borazjan, Ramhormoz, Behbahan, Bam, Yazd, Kahnouj, Tabas, Mashhad, Sabzevar, Gonbad-e Kavous, Qaemshahr, Rasht (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Roudsar, Haviq Talesh, Azbarom Lahijan, Dizelabad Kermanshah, Ardabil, Tabriz, Urmia, Salmas, Khoy, Naqadeh, Miandoab, Mahabad, Boukan, Saqqez, Baneh, Marivan, Kamyaran, Borujerd, and Ilam.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cCarrying out executions is a betrayal of the Qur\u2019an,\u201d
\n\u201cIran without executions,\u201d and
\n\u201cThey plundered Iran and ruined our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOur salaries are in rials, our expenses in dollars,\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cClean air is my right.\u201d<\/p>\n