On Tuesday, June 16, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign entered its 125th week, once again demonstrating the determination of Iran’s resistant prisoners not to surrender to the rule of executions and torture.
On this occasion, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign issued a statement, listing numerous human rights violations during the past week and calling for the immediate halt of executions.
The statement reads:
“In the critical conditions facing Iranian society, while the Iranian regime and its repressive and judicial apparatus have hanged more than 177 prisoners since March 21, we continue to witness the issuance and implementation of inhumane death sentences. This is a desperate attempt to contain the explosion of public anger from people exhausted by oppression, injustice, and soaring prices.”
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“According to reports published during the past week, in addition to hundreds of prisoners convicted of ordinary crimes who are sentenced to death without public attention and many of whose sentences are carried out, the death sentences of political prisoners Ali Fattah and Mohammad Naghizadeh have at least been upheld by the Supreme Court, and they have been transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison. Two other political prisoners, Ali Kamali and Peyman Ganji, have also been transferred from Greater Tehran Prison to Ghezel Hesar Prison. Peyman Ganji is a 23-year-old man who was arrested during the January uprising and sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.”
“As we have repeatedly pointed out before, Ghezel Hesar Prison serves as the main execution center in Tehran Province and is one of the regime’s execution sites. It holds many prisoners sentenced to death, and inmates transferred there after receiving death sentences face the risk of imminent execution.”
“Amnesty International, in response to the wave of executions of political prisoners and the threat to the lives of five prisoners—Alireza Merdasi, Masoud Jamei, Reza Abdali, Farshad Etemadifar, and Hassan Maslavi—has called for the suspension of the executions of these five individuals and other prisoners in Iran.”
“We, the members of the ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ campaign, demand the immediate cessation of executions and call upon all conscientious individuals and political, human rights, civil, labor, and social activists to condemn executions in every possible way and take serious action to stop them.”
“The realization of freedom, equality, and the preservation of human dignity is impossible without safeguarding the right to life. We call on all opponents of the death penalty to unite in solidarity and collective action to dismantle the structure of despotism and the cycle of taking human life.”
Prisoners participating in the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign are on hunger strike on Tuesday, June 16, during the campaign’s 125th week, in 56 prisons across the country.
