The “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign entered its 37th week of hunger strikes in 22 different prisons across Iran on October 8, ahead of the “World Day Against the Death Penalty.”
In this week’s statement, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign reported that at least 30 people were executed in various prisons across the country on October 1 and 2, including three women. Additionally, Mahmoud Dehmordeh, a death row prisoner in Zabol prison, died of a heart attack due to a lack of medical attention.
According to the statement, last week, a political prisoner named Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydranlou was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Urmia. He had been detained since April 2023 and was subjected to severe torture. He was sentenced illegally, without due process, on the charge of “rebellion” (defined under Iran’s regime laws as opposing the Islamic ruler, typically referring to those who stand against the regime).
On the occasion of the “World Day Against the Death Penalty,” declared by the UN General Assembly, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign harshly criticized the Iranian regime as one of the world’s worst human rights violators and called for serious global attention to the human rights situation in Iran.
The campaign stressed that since the beginning of 2024, nearly 450 people have been executed in Iran, while many other countries are moving towards abolishing the death penalty.
The members of the campaign have called on national and international political, civil, and human rights organizations to take action to “save the lives of death row prisoners in Iran” and urged the global community to “hold the leaders of the Iranian regime accountable for four decades of crimes against humanity and the mass killings of prisoners.”
The hunger strike on Tuesday, October 8, as a form of protest by the campaign members, took place in the following prisons: Evin Prison (Women’s Ward and Wards 4 and 8), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Units 3 and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Greater Tehran, Khorramabad, Arak, Isfahan’s Asadabad, Shiraz Nezam, Bam, Mashhad, Lakan Rasht (Men’s and Women’s Wards), Qaemshahr, Ardabil, Tabriz, Urmia, Salmas, Khoy, Naqadeh, Saqqez, Baneh, Marivan, and Kamyaran Prison.
