The 80th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign was held. This followed the brutal crackdown on campaign participants in Ghezel Hesar Prison, which included the execution of two political prisoners and the forced transfer of Saeed Masouri to an unknown location—demonstrating the campaign’s unwavering determination to achieve its demands.
In their statement, the prisoners referenced recent executions, the barbaric amputation of fingers of three inmates in Urmia prison, Amnesty International’s stance on the issue, and the lack of information regarding the fate of several political prisoners in Unit 4 of Ghezel Hesar after they were violently assaulted.
Prisoners who participated in the 80th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign said that the intensified repression is intended to instill fear and silence a society that, since the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, has thirsted for justice and freedom.
The full statement of the political prisoners who participated in the 80th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign is as follows:
“We begin the 80th week of the ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ campaign across 48 different prisons.
Since last week, at least 30 prisoners—including two women—have been executed, and one execution was carried out in public. The cycle of violence and executions continues without pause.
Last week, in an extremely savage and inhumane act, the fingers of three inmates were amputated in Urmia Prison.
Amnesty International strongly condemned this act in a statement and called Iran’s judiciary “a cog in the machinery of torture.”
The UN Special Rapporteur, Ms. Mai Sato, described it as an “inhuman and degrading” act.
Mai Sato Condemns Iran’s Amputation Sentences for Three Prisoners
We begin the 80th week of the campaign under circumstances where we still have no information about the fate of several campaign members held in Unit 4 of Ghezel Hesar Prison. On July 26, they were brutally attacked by prison guards and security agents, then transferred to solitary confinement in the secure ward of Unit 3. Some of them were returned to the ward after five days. The political ward is now fully restricted and heavily surveilled with multiple security cameras installed. There is still no news on the whereabouts of five of them: Loqman Aminpour, Hamzeh Savari, Reza Salmanzadeh, Sepehr Emamjomeh, and Mostafa Ramezani. Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb has again been transferred to the secure ward. The condition of Saeed Masouri is extremely concerning. What we know is that Zahedan Prison refused to accept this campaign member, and he is currently held in solitary confinement in the special ward of Unit 1 in Ghezel Hesar Prison, under harsh and uncertain conditions.
We, the members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, condemn the brutal assault, abuse, and torture of prisoners and salute the resistance and steadfastness of our executed and defiant comrades. We express our gratitude to all those who have echoed and continue to echo the pain and suffering of the prisoners.
We believe that the intensification of executions, repression, amputations, and the constant use of blatant violence serves no purpose other than to inject fear and silence society—a society that, since the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, has yearned for justice and freedom, and has persistently defended human dignity and the right to self-determination, paying the price daily through imprisonment, execution, and torture.
We continue to call on all awakened consciences and freedom-seekers—both inside the country and internationally—to amplify the cry of “No to executions” by actively supporting the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign. Expanding this campaign—despite the regime’s efforts and its overt and covert backers—must be prioritized by all possible means.
Today, Tuesday, August 5, our comrades in the secure and special wards of Ghezel Hesar Prison are on hunger strike along with participants from 48 other prisons involved in the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign.
