The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has entered its 65th week. In a statement, prisoners protesting death sentences in Iran condemned the criminal execution of political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou.
Political prisoners also described the issuance of death sentences for fellow political prisoner Pejman Soltani and others as a reflection of the regime’s fear of widespread protests and popular uprisings.
The full statement from the political prisoners is as follows:
Whenever the execution-driven and tyrannical regime ruling Iran finds itself in a deadlock, it intensifies repression against the people, with the sharpest edge of this brutality aimed at defenseless and shackled prisoners, whose lives it takes through inhumane death sentences.
The Expansion of The “No to Executions Tuesdays” Campaign To 40 Prisons Across Iran
The criminal execution of 40-year-old political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, father of three, who was arrested in April 2023 and severely tortured, is part of the regime’s anti-human acts against the people of Iran.
This political prisoner, under savage torture, was forced to confess against himself and sign documents that had been prepared in advance by his interrogators.
Since the beginning of the current year, at least 88 people—including 5 women, 7 political prisoners, and 2 juvenile offenders—have been executed. This figure is several times higher than last year, and it reflects the explosive state of society.
In recent days, a political prisoner from Bukan named Pejman Soltani, who was arrested during the 2022 protests, was sentenced to death.
This scale of prisoner executions and the issuance and enforcement of death sentences in Iran reflects the regime’s deep fear of uprisings and social protests. It is a serious warning to the international community and human rights organizations not to remain silent in the face of this murderous regime, and to take concrete action against these inhumane executions.
The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign informs fellow citizens that a group of inmates in Behbahan Prison have joined the campaign this week in protest against death sentences and will go on hunger strike every Tuesday from now on as part of this initiative.
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, prisoners in 40 prisons across the country will go on hunger strike for the 65th consecutive week as part of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign.
