Parisa Kamali, a political prisoner currently serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence in the Central Prison of Yazd, has released a powerful audio message from behind bars to condemn the recent surge of executions carried out by the clerical regime. In her message, she described the state’s execution machinery as an obsolete tool for regime survival, asserting that it will ultimately fail against the collective will of “the countless.”
A Covenant of Resistance Against the Gallows
Kamali, who is enduring harsh conditions in internal exile at Yazd Prison for her commitment to pro-freedom ideals, reaffirmed her unbreakable bond with those who have lost their lives fighting for freedom. Paying tribute to these fallen individuals, she characterized the death penalty as a desperate authoritarian response to the public’s demands for justice.
“Severed be the hands that sign away human breath with their pens,” Kamali said, describing the perpetrators as entities whose survival depends entirely on shedding blood.
The Endurance of Will Beyond the Noose
The political prisoner argued that the logic of the current rulers is merely a continuation of the systematic brutality that has claimed the lives of Iran’s youth for decades.
- The Rulers’ Logic: Kamali stated, “Paper tigers rule here; a place where cries for justice are answered with bullets and the gallows. You execute us in the hope of ending our struggle, but you are gravely mistaken.”
- The Endurance of the Ideal: Naming defiant prisoners and victims such as Vahid Bani Amerian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, and Abolhassan Montazer, she emphasized that physical elimination cannot eradicate the ideology of resistance. “We are countless. We are the very people you sought to silence through execution, yet we stand firm.”
- Solidarity and Advocacy: Kamali further declared her resolute support for the families of death-row prisoners, including Manouchehr Fallah, Peyman Farahavar, Zahra Tabari, and Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, calling for the immediate reversal of death sentences issued against her compatriots.
Concluding Remarks: A Vision for Abolition
Parisa Kamali concluded her message with a warning to those whose silence aligns them with the perpetrators, emphasizing that the noose of this tyranny will inevitably tighten around the regime’s own accomplices. Expressing hope for the dawn of freedom, she closed her remarks with a final appeal.
“Hoping for a day when no trace of execution remains in my homeland, Iran, or anywhere else in the world.”
Who is Parisa Kamali Ardakani?
Parisa Kamali Ardakani was arrested on April 29, 2024, in Isfahan and initially held in Dowlatabad Prison. She faces three separate cases brought against her in Isfahan and Ardakan, involving various security-related charges.
In 2025, she was transferred to Yazd Prison. After accepting the court’s ruling (“taslim be ra’y”), her combined sentence was reduced to three and a half years.
Born in 1986 in Abadan, Ms. Kamali is a married geography student.
