In its 76th consecutive week, political prisoners across Iran have continued the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, staging hunger strikes in 47 prisons nationwide. In a joint statement, the prisoners urge all human rights organizations and activists to intensify pressure on Iran’s regime to uphold human rights. The full statement reads as follows:
First, we find it necessary to honor the memory of those who lost their lives in the student uprising of July 1999. Though brutally suppressed, that movement laid the foundation for future protests in 2009, 2017, 2019, and 2022—demonstrations that will continue until the people achieve freedom and the right to self-determination.
Members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign express deep concern and growing outrage over the latest wave of executions and intensifying security crackdowns across the country. Since June 22, at least 24 people have been executed in Iran, bringing the total number of executions since March 21, 2025 (the start of the Iranian year 1404), to 428. These horrific figures represent just a portion of the widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Iran.
Beyond this new wave of executions, this week has also seen further deadly repression, including the killing of two young men in Hamedan by regime forces and an armed assault on women in the village of Gunich near the city of Khash, which resulted in the death of two local women. These incidents are clear examples of the regime’s deep-rooted misogyny and its fear of public dissent, aimed at intimidating society.
In this context, Ms. Mai Sato, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, issued a serious warning on July 4 regarding the regime’s exploitation of regional conflicts to suppress national and religious minorities and political dissidents. She emphasized the need to protect the fundamental rights of all citizens based on international law and accused the Iranian regime of continuing systematic repression.
Members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign also strongly condemn the issuance of death sentences for five Kurdish political prisoners—Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, Pejman Soltani, Soran Ghasemi, Kaveh Salehi, and Tayfour Salimi Babamiri—who were arrested during the 2022 uprising. These inhumane rulings, lacking any semblance of fair trial, have collectively sentenced the five men to 12 executions.
The campaign calls on the international community, human rights organizations, and conscious, freedom-loving individuals not to remain indifferent to the fate of dual-national prisoners such as Ahmadreza Djalali. He was abducted inhumanely by regime security agents on the night of the Evin Prison bombing and, after years of suffering in prison, is now at risk of having a medieval-style death sentence carried out. The campaign urges all not to be intimidated by the regime’s terror tactics and to stand fully in defense of the “right to life” of citizens and prisoners on death row.
The campaign further urges all organizations and human rights defenders to intensify efforts to clarify the situation of prisoners, demand access to prisons, and call for direct dialogue with political prisoners. The testimonies of political prisoners exiled to the Greater Tehran and Qarchak prisons offer just a glimpse of the inhumane conditions that prevail in Iran’s prison system. If this is the state of the prisons in the capital, one can only imagine the atrocities occurring in other facilities, especially those affecting ordinary and unrecognized inmates.
We demand the immediate abolition of all death sentences in Iran and firmly believe that the people of Iran, in solidarity with other oppressed nations, will continue this path of resistance and steadfastness until victory and liberation are achieved.
