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IRAN - The 77th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

July 15, 2025:

July 15, 2025 - IRAN. The 77th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, the 77th week of the nationwide “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign is being held, with the addition of Yazd Prison expanding the scope of this protest to 48 prisons across the country.

In this week’s statement, the prisoners highlight the issuance of 2 death sentences for 3 political prisoners and the transfer of 3 Arab prisoners to solitary confinement, warning of the imminent risk of execution and enforced disappearance. They emphasize:

“Public executions are a tool to suppress uprisings and public anger, not the execution of justice; they are instruments of intimidation, not of law.”

The full statement for the 77th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign reads as follows:

Yazd Prison Joins the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign, Expanding It to 48 Prisons in its 77th Week.
This week, the voice of protest against executions and state-sanctioned killings continues to resonate from within the prisons of the Velayat-e Faqih.

According to recent reports, 3 political prisoners—Farshad Etemadi-Far, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi—have each been sentenced to death twice by Branch 1 of the so-called “Revolutionary Court” of Ahvaz. In recent days, three Arab political and ideological prisoners sentenced to death—Ali Mojaddam, Moein Khanfari, and Mohammadreza Moghaddam—have been transferred to solitary confinement in Ahvaz and are now at serious risk of execution. The complete lack of information about their condition has intensified the anguish of their families.

This lack of information regarding the fate of these 3 prisoners—and dozens of others—greatly increases the danger of enforced disappearance, a phenomenon we have sadly witnessed many times in the past.

Ms. Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, has expressed grave concern regarding the condition of the three Ahvazi Arab prisoners, once again sounding the international alarm over the escalating repression in Iran. These warnings must evolve into a public demand for the immediate halt of executions.

Meanwhile, the requests for retrial by 2 political prisoners sentenced to death, Mehdi Hasani and Behrouz Ehsani, have been rejected for the 4th time. This is despite serious legal ambiguities in their cases, which have previously been declared “classified,” preventing even their attorneys from accessing case details—an act that is clearly illegal.

Executions have once again accelerated in the month of Tir (June–July). So far this month, at least 44 individuals, including 1 woman, have been executed. 2 of them were hanged in public in the cities of Miandoab and Bukan. That means 2 executions per day—and these are only the executions that have been made public. These are scenes of intimidation and power projection by a regime beset by crises on all sides, using public executions as a tool to suppress uprisings and public outrage.

According to received reports, in the latest expansion of the “No to Execution” popular campaign, a group of prisoners in Yazd Prison have joined as the 48th prison participating in “No to Execution Tuesdays.” This signifies growing public awareness and the resolve to stand firm against the regime’s medieval machinery of death.

Despite mounting security pressures, the families of those sentenced to death and justice seekers continue to raise their voices every week alongside the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign to save their loved ones. Members of this campaign, while condemning the regime’s pressure on grieving families, call on freedom-loving people across Iran to disrupt the regime’s staged scenes of public executions and transform them into acts of resistance and exposure.

Noble People of Iran, Your outcry and protest can expose the criminal face of this inhumane regime and keep the voices of its victims alive. We urgently call on everyone not to leave the families of death row prisoners and justice seekers alone.

Our strength lies in our solidarity and unity. Without a doubt, we will sweep away the apparatus of repression and execution.

On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, prisoners in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign are on hunger strike in the following 48 prisons:

Qezel Hesar Prison (Units 3 and 4); Central Karaj Prison; Fardis Karaj Prison; Greater Tehran Prison; Qarchak Prison; Khorein Varamin Prison; Choobindar Qazvin Prison; Ahar Prison; Arak Prison; Khorramabad Prison; Yasuj Prison; Asadabad Prison (Esfahan); Dastgerd Esfahan Prison; Sheiban Prison, Ahvaz; Sepidar Prison, Ahvaz (men’s and women’s wards); Nezam Prison, Shiraz; Adelabad Prison, Shiraz (men’s and women’s wards); Firuzabad Prison, Fars; Zahedan Prison (women’s ward); Borazjan Prison; Ramhormoz Prison; Behbahan Prison; Bam Prison; Kahnouj Prison; Tabas Prison; Mashhad Prison; Gonbad-e Kavus Prison; Qaemshahr Prison; Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards); Rudsar Prison; Haviq Talesh Prison; Ezbaram Lahijan Prison; Dizelabad 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; Yazd Prison.

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