On Tuesday, September 2, 2025, the nationwide No to Execution Tuesdays’ hunger strike entered its eighty-fourth week, while joined by inmates from Langroud Prison in Qom, bringing the number of prisons engaged in the campaign to 51.
The No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign indicates the expanding resistance against the death penalty in Iran.
Families at the Heart of the Campaign
The constant protest gatherings of families of political prisoners in the face of security pressures have demonstrated that the No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign is a shared demand by death-row prisoners, their families and society at large.
This week, the participation of the mother of Shahrokh Daneshvarkar, a political prisoner facing a death sentence, drew significant attention. Having recently lost her husband, she joined the protest holding a picture of her son, stressing that even personal grief and mourning cannot silence the cry of “No to Execution.”
Acts of Protests Expand in Streets Across Iranian Cities
Parallel to the hunger strike in 51 prison, dozens of Iranian cities, including Tehran, Tabriz, Hamedan, Shahr-e Kord, Zanjan, Arak, Sonqor, Isfahan, Robat Karim, Rudsar, and Qods, protests against the regime’s execution-driven policies.
Carrying placards with slogans such as “No to Execution,” “Free Political Prisoners,” and “Immediate Abolition of the Death Penalty,” protesters voiced their unequivocal rejection of capital punishment and reaffirmed their determination to continue the campaign until the death penalty is abolished in Iran.
