In the 83rd week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign, prisoners in 50 prisons across Iran launched a hunger strike on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, to denounce the regime’s escalating wave of executions. Inmates from Dehdasht Prison joined the movement this week.
The prisoners’ statement in the 83rd week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign declares:
“We call on all international organizations, human rights defenders, and conscientious individuals to confront this machinery of death and amplify the voices of the Iranian people rising against executions.”
The statistics remain alarming with 166 people executed in Iran since July 23. At least two prisoners were publicly hanged in the cities of Kordkuy and Beyram Larstan, as a deliberate effort to normalize violence and humiliate society.
Public outrage has been further fueled by the transformation of Section 41 of Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery into a parking lot to erase the evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Section 41 was the site of the burial of thousands of political prisoners executed in the 1980s.
Families of Death-Row Political Prisoners Steadfast in Their Demands
Mothers and fathers of political prisoners facing the death penalty have been consistently protesting on Tuesdays, despite relentless security pressures and judicial threats. They demand that the executions of their children be halted, and political prisoners be freed.
Holding the pictures of their loved ones, they cry out, “No to executions” and “Our children are innocent — stop the executions.”
These families remind the world that every execution does not only claim a life—it devastates a family, a neighborhood, and an entire community.
A Broad-Based Social Resistance
The No to Execution Tuesdays campaign has united diverse segments of Iranian society—students, workers, teachers, retirees, and beyond. Opposition to executions is no longer the concern of a single group, but a collective demand echoing across Iran.
