Political prisoners participating in the 58th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign called for “more serious and urgent action from the world’s awakened consciences to stop the killing machine” in Iran.
In their statement on Tuesday, March 4, the prisoners announced that several inmates in Miandoab Prison had joined the campaign and started a hunger strike. With this, the number of participating prisons in the campaign increased to 38.
Participants in the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign stated that “the authoritarian regime ruling Iran has executed 85 people in just the first two weeks of Esfand (starting February 19).”
According to the statement, “at least 53 people were executed last week, including 24 Kurds and Baluchis, and one individual was brutally hanged in public in Esfarayen.”
The campaign emphasized: “These barbaric executions, especially at the doorstep of Nowruz (the Iranian New Year, beginning on March 21), which bring mourning to hundreds of Iranians, clearly demonstrate that this medieval regime has no goal other than instilling fear in society and seeks to prolong its survival solely through repression, torture, and executions.”
The “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign noted: “In response to this state violence against defenseless people in Iran, many compatriots and freedom-loving individuals across Iran and the world have joined the campaign alongside committed prisoners in various prisons, condemning the criminal executions in Iran.”
The prisoners participating in the campaign reiterated in their statement this week their call for “more serious and urgent action from the world’s awakened consciences to stop the killing machine.”
In its 58th week, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign continued in Evin Prison (women’s ward, wards 4 and 8), Ghezel Hesar Prison (units 2, 3, and 4), as well as Karaj Central Prison, Greater Tehran Prison, Khorin Varamin Prison, Chubindar Prison in Qazvin, Arak Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Asadabad Prison in Isfahan, Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, and the Sheiban and Sepidar prisons in Ahvaz.
Last week, a group of prisoners in Miandoab Prison in East Azerbaijan Province announced that in protest against execution sentences, they would join the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign and go on a hunger strike starting Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
The statement concluded: “Once again, and more than ever, we call on the world’s awakened consciences to take more serious and urgent action to stop this killing machine.”
