Reports from Iranian prisons indicate that the “No To Execution Tuesdays” campaign continued on Tuesday, November 11, entering its ninety-fourth week. This campaign, launched nearly two years ago to end the massive waves of executions in Iran, has continued uninterrupted and is expanding. In a statement, the campaign emphasized that no government can silence the powerful voices of truth, justice, and freedom through executions, calling on all conscientious individuals to turn the cry of “No to execution” into a powerful wave in every city and street, because inaction and silence mean the taking of innocent and defenseless lives in the prisons of the tyrannical and bloodthirsty rule of the supreme leader.
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Full text of the statement by the “No To Execution Tuesdays” campaign
Expansion of the “No To Execution Tuesdays” campaign in its ninety-fourth week across fifty-four different prisons
With the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison joining the campaign
On the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, we begin by honoring the memory of those who were massacred by the tyrannical regime.
Since the establishment of the dictatorship of the supreme leader in February 1979, through the November 2019 uprising, the nationwide protests of 2022, and up to today, the people of Iran have walked a costly path toward freedom and human dignity. Decades of repression, discrimination, and killings have failed to extinguish the people’s will for liberation and freedom.
In recent days, Reza Abdali, an Ahvazi Arab political prisoner, has been sentenced to death. We demand the immediate cancellation of this sentence and an end to the cycle of death in Iran’s prisons.
In other news, on Monday, Ehsan Afrashteh and Mehdi Farid, two prisoners sentenced to death on security-related charges, were transferred from Ward 7 of Evin Prison to an unknown location after being beaten. Although political prisoners tried to prevent their transfer, there are serious concerns that their death sentences may soon be carried out.
In a time when demands for justice are met with imprisonment, torture, and execution, the social reflection of this rampant repression among the most deprived segments of society sometimes manifests in the heartbreaking form of self-immolation—an act of protest that arises from utter despair.
This past week brought the tragic news of the death of Kourosh Khairy, a driver with the Khorramabad Department of Education, who set himself on fire in protest over his dismissal from work. Equally heartbreaking was the self-immolation of Ahmad Baledi, an Ahvazi student who took this desperate action after authorities demolished his small street stall in an act of injustice. These are bitter examples of the voiceless cries of people who, crushed by oppression and humiliation, find only their own lives as instruments of protest.
A regime that seeks to silence voices of protest through executions and repression has, amid these turbulent and critical days in Iran, intensified executions to a frenzied degree. Since October 23 alone, 165 people have been executed; in just the past week, 72 individuals—including one woman—were hanged, and on November 3 and 4 alone, 29 people lost their lives to the gallows.
Official figures show that since March 21, 2025, more than 1,313 executions have been carried out in Iran—a horrifying number that reflects the normalization of death under the shadow of injustice.
The “No To Execution Tuesdays” campaign reiterates that no government can silence the powerful voices of truth, justice, and freedom through executions. It calls upon all conscientious individuals to turn the cry of “No to execution” into a loud and unrelenting wave in every city and street, because inaction and silence mean the loss of innocent and defenseless lives in the prisons of the tyrannical and bloodthirsty rule of the supreme leader.
Prisons participating in the campaign
With the support of the Iranian people, prisoners have stood firm against the machinery of fear and terror. In the ninety-fourth week of the campaign’s hunger strike, the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison has also joined the “No To Execution Tuesdays” campaign.
On Tuesday, November 11, during its ninety-fourth week, prisoners in fifty-four prisons across Iran joined the “No To Execution Tuesdays” campaign by staging a hunger strike.
