A group of political prisoners involved in the “Tuesdays No to Execution” campaign in Ghezel Hesar Prison warned in a letter that the life of Ehsan Faridi, a twenty-two-year-old student and political prisoner sentenced to death, is in serious danger.
The letter states that Faridi is “yet another victim of the regime’s brutality, which has intensified after the twelve-day war.”
The signatories of the letter described Faridi’s arrest process as “illegal,” his trial as “unfair,” and his appeal hearing as entirely “formalistic,” warning that his life is in grave danger.
These prisoners described the confirmation of Faridi’s death sentence as “an alarm bell” for all human rights activists and urged them, given the situation, to organize “serious and widespread activity” to “save the life of this innocent human being” and other death-row prisoners.
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Mahmoud Behzadi-Rad, Faridi’s lawyer, said on October 22 that he submitted a request for retrial on October 14, it was sent to the branch on October 15, and was rejected at 12:50 p.m.
The attorney added: “They probably did not even read my eight-page retrial request. I suspect they are dismissing many cases without attention at the end of the month to raise statistics so that benefits will be given to the staff of that branch.”
In the rest of their letter, the prisoners of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign emphasized the need to bring the voices of death-row prisoners to public attention: “We must all be the voice of the voiceless, and we must not stop our efforts until this cruel death sentence is abolished and all innocent convicts are saved.”
In conclusion, these prisoners called on all freedom-seekers not to remain indifferent to the confirmation of Faridi’s death sentence and to bring his story of innocence to the world.
Faridi was first arrested in March 2024 by the Intelligence Organization of Iran’s police force and was released on bail some time later. In June 2024, when he went to Branch 15 of the Tabriz Prosecutor’s Office for questioning, he was arrested again and transferred to prison.
This political prisoner was sentenced to death in February 2025 by Ali Sheikhlou, head of Branch Three of the Tabriz Revolutionary Court. The sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court at least three times.
On November 12, Faridi’s family announced in an Instagram video that they had met their son behind the bars of the prison visit area.
Parvin Hayati, the mother of this political prisoner, wrote in the caption of the video: “As a mother, I have a question. Is the place of Ehsan and others like him behind prison bars? And for what crime such a sentence?”
Alireza Faridi, his father, also said in an interview: “The prosecutor who drafted the indictment, Seyed Ali Mousavi-Aghdam, was later dismissed for forming a corruption ring. How can my son be sentenced to ‘corruption on earth’ based on an indictment issued by someone removed for corruption? My son does not deserve such a sentence.”
At present, in addition to prisoners convicted of non-political crimes who are hanged daily in Iran’s prisons, about 70 prisoners across the country with political charges are at risk of confirmation or implementation of their death sentences.
More than 100 others with similar charges are facing the risk of receiving death sentences.
