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Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays”

No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign                                                                                           چهارشنبه ١٧ تیر ١۴٠۵ - ٨ ژوئیه ۲۰۲٦

The reappointment of Mohseni Ejei is a serious threat to prisoners and human rights in Iran.
On the eve of 9 July, the anniversary of the killing of students on 9 July 1999, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign honors the memory of those who lost their lives on the path of freedom and equality. On that day, the ruling establishment suppressed the students’ protest and dragged the University Dormitory through blood and dust.

According to published statistics, the illegitimate government of “Velayat-e Faqih” has hanged at least 15 people since the beginning of July, and has issued the inhuman sentence of execution for a number of prisoners of general and political crimes.

Last week, Judge Salavati issued the medieval sentence of execution for Arghavan Fallahi, a female political prisoner held in the women’s ward of Evin. This sentence was issued by this notorious judge while the process of the case has taken place under unfair conditions and under pressure from security institutions.

Also, death sentences have been issued for a number of those arrested in the January 2026 uprising; among them, one can refer to the death sentence of Kamal Khanbahaei in Choubindar Qazvin Prison. Also, Vahid Khansanami, held in Tehran Bozorg Prison, was sentenced to death in an unfair process, and in order to intimidate society, a couple named Mehdi Nazar and Mahnaz Chardouli were cruelly sentenced to death.

These inhuman sentences are being issued while, recently, Mohseni Ejei, the head of the government judiciary, was once again kept in his position by his autocratic ruler, Mojtaba Khamenei. Ejei has a record entirely filled with human rights violations, and in the past four years he has claimed the record for the highest number of death sentences in the past three decades.

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign, while condemning the unjust death sentences, calls on all international bodies and awakened consciences to react to the human catastrophe that is taking place in Iran’s prisons. Death sentences are in fact issued behind closed doors and under pressure and psychological and physical torture in interrogation rooms. Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to take serious action in every possible way to pressure the government to observe the principles of fair trial, especially the public holding of trials in which the charges raised lead to deprivation of life and the death sentence.

Finally, it is necessary to mention that during this time many have produced content for us in support of the campaign, or have wanted their own “No to Execution” content to be published through the “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign.” The campaign is nationwide and belongs to all striking prisoners with all tendencies, and therefore its demand is inclusive and beyond groups, parties, and currents. In addition, numerous materials are sent to the campaign’s pages. If we have not reposted the submitted content on the campaign’s social media pages, the first reason is so that this campaign remains beyond groups and political tendencies, belonging to all its members and supporters and opponents of execution. The second reason is that the main purpose of the campaign’s pages in the virtual space is to inform about the weekly statements and to create an archive of these statements. We thank the supporters of the campaign and all opponents of execution for producing content and for progressive anti-execution actions in defense of the right to life, and we warmly press everyone’s hands.

Undoubtedly, with collective resistance and

solidarity against execution, we will be victorious!

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign, on Tuesday, 7 July 2026, in its 128th week, is on hunger strike in the following 57 prisons:
Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Karaj Prison, Tehran Bozorg Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Choubindar Qazvin Prison, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langroud Qom Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Boroujerd Prison, Yasouj Prison, Asadabad Isfahan Prison, Dastgerd Isfahan Prison, Sheiban Ahvaz Prison, Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Shiraz Prison, Adelabad Shiraz Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Firouzabad Fars Prison, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Kahnouj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavous Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Roudsar Prison, Haviq Talesh Prison, Azbaram Lahijan Prison, Dizelabad 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, Ilam Prison, and Kerman Prison.

The execution and repression machine of the ruling authoritarian government continues its work, and every day we witness the execution of political prisoners and prisoners of general crimes across the country.

The government’s judiciary has announced that since the beginning of the recent war, it has arrested 3,292 people on the charge of “collaboration with the enemy.” This statistic is being published under circumstances in which, after the suppression of the nationwide January 2026 protests by military and security forces, the process of dealing with protesters has entered a new stage, and a large number of those arrested are at risk of being sentenced to death or to long-term imprisonment.

The prosecutor of Sari has said that 700 cases have been opened against the January 2026 protesters. Alamolhoda, the corrupt Friday prayer leader (Imam Jomeh) of Mashhad, has also reported thousands of cases for those arrested in the January 2026 uprising.

The number of executions in June of the current year amounts to around 140.

The record of this government is full of widespread and blatant violations of human rights and the use of execution as a tool for repression and intimidation. Thousands of families in Iran are mourning loved ones who, in an inhuman process, became victims of the government’s repressive will. In this context, the voice of a father asking, “Where is my son’s grave?” is a voice rising from the depth of suffering and injustice; the question of the father of Vahid Bani-Amerian, a political prisoner who, along with five other political prisoners, was executed in April of this year in Ghezel Hesar Prison, and of other families whose children’s bodies were not handed over to them, is not merely a personal demand, but the cry of many justice seekers who have been deprived even of the basic right to know the burial place of their loved ones. This deprivation is the continuation of punishment after execution and a blatant violation of human dignity, a place where suffering does not end and is not even allowed to mourn.

Against these acts of repression and medieval barbarity, the voice of prisoners in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign remains loud. Without interruption, every Tuesday they remind us that the death penalty must be abolished and that freedom and equality must be established in Iran.

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign, on Tuesday, 30 June 2026, in its 127th week, is on hunger strike in the following 57 prisons:
Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Karaj Prison, Tehran Bozorg Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Choubindar Qazvin Prison, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langroud Qom Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Boroujerd Prison, Yasouj Prison, Asadabad Isfahan Prison, Dastgerd Isfahan Prison, Sheiban Ahvaz Prison, Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Shiraz Prison, Adelabad Shiraz Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Firouzabad Fars Prison, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Kahnouj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavous Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Roudsar Prison, Haviq Talesh Prison, Azbaram Lahijan Prison, Dizelabad 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, Ilam Prison, and Kerman Prison.

No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign

No to Execution

At a time when human dignity should be at the center of law, justice, and governance, the killing and execution machine of Iran’s executionist government continues at full speed. According to reports received, on 7 June 2026, two women, aged 28 and 32, named Asieh Farahmand and Zeinab Zarini, were hanged in Qazvin Prison. Due to the lack of transparent reporting, the news of their executions has only recently reached us.

Also, on 16 June 2026, two political prisoners of the January 2026 protests in Shahroud, named Abolfazl Saedi and Javad Zamani, were executed. Accordingly, the number of prisoners executed in June has reached 134 people.

The death penalty in Iran is not a tool for the realisation of justice, but rather a mechanism for spreading fear, silencing the voices of opponents, and consolidating the authoritarian structure of power.

On the other hand, after months of military war and the cost it imposed on the lives of the people of Iran, in the recent week the “Velayat-e Faqih” government and the United States reached an initial understanding, in which, according to the published clauses, no attention has been given to human rights, repression, and the horrific executions in Iran. This matter shows that powers are not thinking of change, and that people must rely on themselves for change, and not on any foreign force or power.

Amnesty International and Ms. Mai Sato, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, together with a number of United Nations experts, in separate statements, warned against the ignoring of human rights violations in Iran and the continuation of the immunity of the violators of the human rights of the people of Iran from international prosecution and accountability. We declare to awakened consciences, international institutions, and supporters of human rights and opponents of execution:

We, the prisoners of the “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign,” who for 126 weeks without interruption, every Tuesday in prisons across Iran, through hunger strike and whatever was within our ability, have protested against the medieval executions in Iran, once again declare that the human rights of the people of Iran, especially prisoners, are not negotiable, and together with the general people of Iran, until our last breath and with all our strength, we will defend freedom, equality, and the abolition of the death penalty.

We ask all the honourable and aware people of Iran, as well as the awakened consciences of the world and international human rights institutions, not to remain indifferent to the increasing wave of executions in Iran, and to take responsible and effective action to stop this organised crime by the religious fascism ruling Iran.

History has shown that no tyranny has remained lasting by relying on violence, and no government has been able to silence forever the voice of the people’s demand for justice. What will remain lasting is the ideal of freedom, equality, and respect for the right to life and human dignity; values for whose realisation the people of Iran have paid a heavy price and still insist upon them. The “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign” informs the general public that a group of prisoners in Kerman Prison have also joined this campaign in protest against death sentences, and every Tuesday, together with other prisoners, they go on hunger strike.

The members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign,” on Tuesday, 23 June 2026, in the 126th week, are on hunger strike in the following 57 prisons:
Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Karaj Prison, Tehran Bozorg Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Choubindar Qazvin Prison, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langroud Qom Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Boroujerd Prison, Yasouj Prison, Asadabad Isfahan Prison, Dastgerd Isfahan Prison, Sheiban Ahvaz Prison, Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Shiraz Prison, Adelabad Shiraz Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Firouzabad Fars Prison, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Kahnouj Prison, Tabas Prison, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavous Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Roudsar Prison, Haviq Talesh Prison, Azbaram Lahijan Prison, Dizelabad 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, Ilam Prison, and Kerman Prison.