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28 April 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n News group: Hunger strike of political prisoners –<\/strong><\/p>\n Breathing in Confinement:<\/strong> The hunger strike of political prisoners, \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d, has reached its 118th week across 56 prisons in the country.<\/p>\n According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, the campaign \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d, continuing along its path of protest, has\u2014through hunger strikes and collective solidarity\u2014become one of the prominent voices opposing the death penalty. In its 118th week, while expressing sympathy with the families of those recently executed, the campaign once again emphasises the urgent need to address widespread human rights violations, unfair judicial processes, and the intensification of repression in prisons.<\/p>\n The campaign \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d has emerged in a context where the escalation of execution sentences\u2014particularly against political prisoners and those detained during protests\u2014has become a tool for intimidation and the suppression of social dissent. This protest movement seeks to draw public attention to both the hidden and visible dimensions of violations of fundamental human rights; from judicial processes lacking transparency and justice to degrading and violent treatment within prisons. In such circumstances, \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d is not only a symbol of civil resistance against executions, but also a call to break the silence, raise public awareness, and increase both domestic and international pressure in defence of the right to life and human dignity.<\/p>\n Statement by political prisoners<\/strong><\/p>\n In its 118th week, the campaign \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d expresses sympathy with the families of prisoners who were recently executed and pays tribute to those who lost their lives on the path to freedom and equality.<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the past week, three political prisoners from the January 2026 uprising\u2014Amirali Mirjafari from Tehran, Erfan Kiani from Isfahan, and Amer Ramesh from Sistan and Baluchestan<\/strong>\u2014were executed following unfair judicial processes, and the bodies of two of them were not returned to their families. Undoubtedly, the policy of enforced disappearance adopted by the authorities constitutes a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n The campaign has recently learned that in various prisons, political prisoners and recent detainees are being subjected to beatings, torture, and degrading treatment without restraint. Perpetrators, by shaving prisoners\u2019 heads, using abusive language, and engaging in humiliation, seek to demean them. This inhumane and disgraceful behaviour reportedly continues even when prisoners are taken to the gallows, and is carried out with even greater severity.<\/p>\n We are aware that directives from senior authorities of the ruling religious autocracy, framed under a \u201cwartime posture\u201d, have further enabled the judiciary to violate the rights of those detained during the January protests and the recent conflict. This effectively means disregarding all their legal rights and issuing heavy sentences without fair and just trials.<\/p>\n The illegitimate system of Velayat-e Faqih, out of fear of uprisings and public protests, by occupying streets and public spaces, creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in society, and carrying out daily executions in prisons, has shown that the regime considers the people\u2014not any foreign country\u2014as its primary adversary<\/strong>. Therefore, in these critical and turbulent times, it is essential that freedom-seeking people of Iran and all activists and advocates of \u201cNo to Execution\u201d do not remain silent in the face of repression, but instead become the voice of prisoners and those sentenced to death. Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the international community, organisations, and human rights bodies must pay greater attention than ever to these issues and exert pressure on the Iranian authorities by all possible means.<\/p>\n The United Nations fact-finding committee must take serious action to visit detention centres and prisons in Iran.<\/p>\n The campaign \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d, while condemning the anti-people and authoritarian policies of the authorities, announces that in its 118th week, on Tuesday, 28 April 2026, prisoners in the following 56 prisons are on hunger strike:<\/p>\n Evin Prison (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Central Karaj Prison, Fardis Karaj Prison, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Choobindar Qazvin Prison, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Qom Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Isfahan Prison, Dastgerd Isfahan Prison, Sheiban Ahvaz Prison, Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Nezam Shiraz Prison, Adel Abad Shiraz Prison (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Firuzabad Fars Prison, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (women\u2019s and men\u2019s wards), Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Rudsar Prison, Hovigh Talesh Prison, Azbarom Lahijan Prison, Diesel Abad Kermanshah Prison, Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Miandoab Prison, Mahabad Prison, Bukan Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, Sanandaj Prison, Kamyaran Prison, and Ilam Prison.<\/p>\n Week 118 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 28 April 2026 News group: Hunger strike of political prisoners – Breathing in Confinement: The hunger strike of political prisoners, “Tuesdays Against Execution”, has reached its 118th week across 56 prisons in the country. 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\n28 April 2026<\/p>\n