On the eve of the start of the third year of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, members of the campaign issued a statement expressing solidarity and sympathy with the families of those who lost their lives on the path to freedom, while also voicing their anger and revulsion toward the dictatorship ruling Iran. This statement was issued in the closed and repressive environment of Iran’s prisons.
The full text of the statement marking the one hundred and fifth week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign is presented below:
The continuation of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign in its one hundred and fifth week in 56 different prisons, with the addition of Gorgan Prison
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On the eve of entering the third year of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, while offering our most heartfelt condolences to the families of those who lost their lives on the path to freedom and to the brave people of Iran, we send thousands of salutations to those killed in the January 2026 uprising, who shook the foundations of the fascist rule. We also salute the heroic people of Iran who, in this nationwide uprising, added another golden page to the history of the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom and so terrified the ruling authorities that they resorted to a savage massacre, thereby revealing their fascist nature in the most blatant manner to Iran and the world. Now, thanks to that unjustly shed blood, not only the people of Iran but the world at large has risen in outrage, and global revulsion toward this regime has reached its peak, to the extent that Ms. Mai Sato, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, described the massacre carried out by the government as a “crime against humanity” and called for the prosecution of the heads of the velayat-e faqih system, while the European Parliament and the United Nations Human Rights Council also took unprecedented positions against this crime.
During this period, the regime of repression and executions carried out more than 355 executions between December 22, 2025, and January 20, 2026, alone. In the days prior as well (since January 23), more than 50 prisoners, including two prisoners of conscience, Amanj Karevanchi and Arslan Sheikhi, have been executed. Therefore, the authorities have not only refrained from halting executions but have also extended the wave of killing and execution to the streets, hospitals, detention centers, and even people’s homes.
Reports from various prisons indicate the transfer of those arrested in the streets and even the wounded to different prisons:
1. Newly constructed buildings and wards at Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, which were intended to reduce overcrowding, have been designated as quarantine areas for hundreds of new detainees.
Ghezel Hesar; a hidden quarantine for making protest prisoners disappear
2. At Karaj Central Prison, various halls have been evacuated and allocated to new arrests.
3. At Ghezel Hesar Prison, several halls have been cleared, and new prisoners along with a number of other inmates transferred from Greater Tehran Prison have been moved there to make room for new detainees.
4. Detention centers such as Meghdad are filled with arrested youths.
Therefore, we, the members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, warn against any heavy sentences imposed on those arrested in the recent protests, as well as their harassment, abuse, and killing.
Warning and warning!
Given the lack of official announcements of the names of those killed, arrested, and injured, it is said that the regime intends to kill many detainees and wounded individuals and transfer them to morgues such as Kahrizak and others, and then announce them as street fatalities.
Accordingly, we, the imprisoned members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, in the one hundred and fifth week in 56 prisons across the country, will go on strike on Tuesday, January 27, against execution sentences and in solidarity with the uprising of the people of Iran.
