The ninety-seventh week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign is continuing in fifty-five prisons across the country with prisoners on hunger strike. This week, marked by a sharp rise in executions, has been one of the bloodiest periods of 2025, with nearly 100 prisoners executed in a ten-day span.
Political prisoners in Iran’s prisons, referring to the approaching Iran’s Student Day (December 7), emphasized that repression, imprisonment, and executions have not been able to stop students from pursuing the struggle for freedom. They stressed that once again, universities have become targets of authoritarian attacks, and this time the political prisoner Ehsan Faridi, a twenty-three-year-old student, is facing a potential death sentence on charges of advocating freedom, placing his life in grave danger.
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The full text of this statement is provided below:
Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign in the ninety-seventh week across fifty-five prisons
We begin the ninety-seventh week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign on the eve of December 7, Student Day. Since December 7, 1953, universities have remained the beating heart and the vanguard of the struggle against dictatorship. On this day, we honor the memory of all those who lost their lives for freedom, especially students who became victims of enforced disappearance, including Saeed Zeinali, who disappeared following the 1999 attack on the Tehran University dormitory and has never been seen again.
This is one example among hundreds of students and citizens who have been victimized by authoritarian rulers — an immense injustice inflicted upon their families and grieving mothers. Yet repression, imprisonment, and executions have not managed to stop students from their pursuit of freedom. And now, once again during these days, universities have come under attack by authoritarian forces, with political prisoner Ehsan Faridi, a twenty-three-year-old student, facing a potential death sentence on charges of advocating freedom, placing his life at serious risk.
In the past week, we witnessed an expanding wave of executions, with nearly 100 prisoners executed in the past ten days, including two women. One execution was even carried out in public to spread fear among the population. With this, the number of executions since March 21, 2025, has reached 1,564 — an unprecedented figure in the past three decades, triggering global outrage against the regime’s criminal use of the death penalty.
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Now, with this sweeping wave of executions, it is expected that the political community, student activists, and all awakened consciences will join in supporting prisoners sentenced to death and stand with the families seeking justice. They must raise the voice of “No to Executions” in every possible way so that the regime’s main tool of repression is taken away from the ruling clerical authority, clearing the path toward freedom and the people’s right to self-determination.
Political prisoners participating in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign are on hunger strike on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, in the ninety-seventh week, across fifty-five prisons in the country.
