Members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign from 25 prisons in Iran, in a statement marking the campaign’s 42nd week, warned that the Iranian regime’s judiciary has recently issued execution sentences for several political prisoners and individuals accused of espionage, including Varisheh Moradi and Naser Bekrzadeh in Urmia prison, who have been sentenced to death on political charges.
The statement reads: “The heavy shadow of execution still looms over prisoners in Iran’s prisons, and the pace of executions continues intensively. Since October 22, more than 103 people, including two women, have been executed, with an average of five hangings per day.”
According to this campaign, over 450 people have been executed since the new government took office, marking this as the most significant and tragic outcome of the new administration’s actions.
The statement added that three other prisoners—Edris Ali, Azad Shojaei, and Rasoul Ahmad Mohammad—had previously been sentenced to death by the same judicial branch.
The authors of the statement warned that in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, four Arab prisoners—Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, and Adnan Ghobeishavi—who were transferred to solitary confinement two weeks ago in preparation for their executions, are in extremely poor conditions.
The authors emphasized that in protest of these inhumane conditions, three of them have gone on a hunger strike, placing their lives in serious danger.
The statement declared that this campaign considers the issuing of execution sentences for women like Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi, as well as the dozens of death sentences issued for ethnic minorities such as Kurds, Baluchis, and Arabs, along with violations of fair trial rights, as a form of hostage-taking to suppress public dissent.
On the fifth anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, the authors of this statement commemorated the over 1,500 people who lost their lives in these protests and paid tribute to the resilience of their families in seeking justice.
On November 12, members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, in the 42nd week of the campaign, continue their hunger strike in 25 different prisons. Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan became the 25th prison to join the campaign last week.
