16 June 2026<\/b><\/p>\n
News Group: Political Prisoners\u2019 Hunger Strike<\/b><\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement:<\/b> The hunger strike campaign \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d<\/b>, led by political prisoners, has entered its 125th consecutive week. This sustained act of resistance now spans 56 prisons across Iran and has become a symbol of steadfast opposition to the deprivation of the right to life.<\/p>\n
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, at a time when the right to life\u2014the most fundamental and inalienable human right\u2014is readily sacrificed to the machinery of repression, opposition to the death penalty is not merely a political demand but a humanitarian, moral, and universal outcry. A society in which death becomes an instrument of governance drifts ever further from justice, freedom, and human dignity.<\/p>\n
Today, in the face of the expanding cycle of violence and state-sanctioned killings, standing in defence of the right to life, protecting human dignity, and opposing inhumane punishments are responsibilities shared by all people of conscience. This statement echoes from within Iran\u2019s prisons\u2014from the depths of suffering, yet filled with hope for a future in which freedom, equality, and human dignity are lived realities rather than mere slogans.<\/p>\n
Full Statement by the Political Prisoners:<\/b><\/p>\n
Continuation of the \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d Campaign Across 56 Prisons in Its 125th Week<\/b><\/p>\n
Freedom, equality, and the preservation of human dignity cannot be achieved without safeguarding the right to life.<\/b><\/p>\n
Amid Iran\u2019s deepening social crisis, while the ruling system and its security and judicial apparatus have executed more than 177 prisoners since 20 March this year, death sentences continue to be issued and carried out. These actions represent a desperate attempt to contain mounting public anger fuelled by oppression, injustice, and worsening economic hardship.<\/p>\n
According to reports published over the past week, in addition to hundreds of prisoners convicted of ordinary offences who have been sentenced to death without public attention\u2014and many whose sentences have already been carried out\u2014the death sentences of political prisoners Ali Fattah<\/b> and Mohammad Naqizadeh<\/b> were upheld by the Supreme Court, after which they were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison.<\/p>\n
Two other political prisoners, Ali Kamali<\/b> and Peyman Ganji<\/b>, have also been transferred from Greater Tehran Prison to Ghezel Hesar Prison. Peyman Ganji, a 23-year-old arrested during the January uprising this year, was sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.<\/p>\n
As previously emphasised, Ghezel Hesar Prison serves as the principal execution centre in Tehran Province and is regarded as one of the government\u2019s main execution sites. Many death row prisoners are held there, and those transferred to the prison face an imminent risk of execution.<\/p>\n
In response to the escalating wave of executions of political prisoners and the danger facing five individuals\u2014Alireza Mardasi, Masoud Jamei, Reza Abdali, Farshad Etemadifar, and Hassan Mosallavi<\/b>\u2014Amnesty International<\/b> has called for the immediate halt of their executions and those of other prisoners in Iran.<\/p>\n
We, the members of the \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d<\/b> campaign, call for the immediate cessation of executions and urge all people of conscience, along with political, human rights, civil society, and labour activists, to condemn these executions in every possible way and take meaningful action to stop them.<\/p>\n
Freedom, equality, and the preservation of human dignity cannot be realised without protecting the right to life. We call upon all opponents of the death penalty to unite in solidarity and collective action to dismantle the structures of despotism and break the cycle of state-sanctioned killing.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, 16 June 2026<\/b>, during its 125th week, participants in the \u201cTuesdays Against Execution\u201d<\/b> campaign are observing a hunger strike in the following 56 prisons<\/b>:<\/p>\n
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Evin Prison (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison (Karaj), Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison (Varamin), Choobindar Prison (Qazvin), Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Prison (Qom), Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison (Isfahan), Dastgerd Prison (Isfahan), Sheiban Prison (Ahvaz), Sepidar Prison (Ahvaz, men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Nezam Prison (Shiraz), Adel Abad Prison (Shiraz, men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Firuzabad Prison (Fars), Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaem Shahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men\u2019s and women\u2019s wards), Rudsar Prison, Havigh Prison (Talesh), Azbarom Prison (Lahijan), Dizel Abad Prison (Kermanshah), 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 125<\/b>
\nTuesday, 16 June 2026<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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