As part of the ongoing protests and hunger strikes by prisoners against the Iranian regime’s brutal executions, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has continued this week, entering its ninety-fifth week and taking place across 54 prisons in the country.
Participants in this week’s campaign released a statement honoring the 1,500 people killed during the November 2019 uprising and wrote: “By remembering the martyrs of the November uprising—more than 1,500 women, men, and teenagers who sacrificed their lives for freedom, the oppressed who refused humiliation and rose up against tyranny and despotism—we insist on continuing their path until the complete abolition of executions and the achievement of freedom and equality. As long as oppression and injustice exist, Aban (November) continues.”
(Aban is the Iranian month during which the November 2019 uprising took place.)
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Full text of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign statement
Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign in its ninety-fifth week across 54 different prisons
In this week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, we once again reaffirm our commitment to standing against the machinery of repression and state-sanctioned killing. By remembering the martyrs of the November uprising—more than 1,500 women, men, and teenagers who gave their lives for freedom, the oppressed who refused humiliation and rose up against tyranny—we insist on continuing their path until executions are entirely abolished and freedom and equality are achieved. As long as oppression and injustice continue, Aban (November) lives on.
We enter the ninety-fifth week of this campaign as news emerges of the renewed confirmation of death sentences for three political prisoners in Ahvaz’s Sheiban Prison—Alireza Mardasi, Farshad E‘temadi-far, and Masoud Jame‘i. This once again reveals the depth of cruelty and the normalization of judicial-security violence against protesters and ordinary citizens.
In the past week, a prisoner was executed in public in a medieval manner, and since October 23 (beginning of the Persian month Aban) the number of executions has exceeded 250—an alarming figure that reflects the catastrophic scale of repression and state violence in Iran.
The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, which has so far amplified the voices of families, activists, and death-row prisoners across 54 prisons in Iran, once again emphasizes:
We, the people, are the only supporters and shield protecting prisoners from the gallows.
We call on all freedom-seeking people of Iran—in every city, every neighborhood, and with any means at their disposal—not to remain silent in the face of this horrifying wave of executions and to raise their voice of protest in every possible form and at every level against the implementation of death sentences.
We must support the families who, every week, stand with courage, grief, and hope outside prisons and judicial institutions to protest the impending execution of their loved ones. And once again, we emphasize that only through solidarity and collective protest can this machinery of killing be stopped.
Political prisoners participating in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign are on hunger strike on Tuesday, November 18, in the ninety-fifth week of the campaign across 54 prisons in the country.
