The campaign “No to Executions Tuesdays,” a prisoner-led protest against executions held across multiple prisons in Iran, entered its 127th week on Tuesday, June 30. In this way, the longest-running protest and hunger strike by prisoners in Iran has entered a critical phase. On this occasion, prisoners participating in the campaign issued a statement, and while reviewing the most prominent crimes committed in Iran over the past week, they called for a global response to these executions.
The continuation of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign in 57 different prisons during its 127th week
The machinery of execution and repression of the ruling authoritarian government continues to operate, and on a daily basis political prisoners and prisoners convicted of ordinary crimes are being executed across the country.
The judiciary of the Iranian regime has announced that since the beginning of the recent war, 3,292 people have been arrested on charges of “cooperating with the enemy.” This figure comes amid a new phase of crackdown on protesters following the suppression of nationwide protests in January 2026 by military and security forces, with many detainees now facing death sentences or long prison terms. The prosecutor of Sari, a city in northern Iran, said that 700 cases have been filed against protesters from the January uprising. Ahmad Alamolhoda, the Friday prayer leader of Mashhad, has also reported thousands of cases against those arrested during the January uprising.
The number of executions between May 22 and June 21 has reached approximately 140 people.
The record of this regime is full of widespread and blatant human rights violations and the use of executions as a tool of repression and intimidation. Thousands of families in Iran are mourning loved ones who have been victims of the regime’s repressive will through inhumane processes. In this context, the voice of a father asking, “Where is my son’s grave?” rises from the depths of pain and injustice; this is the question of the father of Vahid Bani Amirian, a political prisoner who, along with five other political prisoners, was executed in April at Qezel Hesar prison. Other families who were not even given the bodies of their children express not only a personal demand but the collective cry of many justice-seekers who are deprived of the basic right to know the burial place of their loved ones. This deprivation is a continuation of punishment after death and a clear violation of human dignity, where suffering does not end and mourning is not even permitted.
In contrast to this repression and medieval brutality, the voice of prisoners in the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign continues to be raised. Every Tuesday without interruption, they remind that the death penalty must be abolished and that freedom and equality must be established in Iran.
Members of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign are on hunger strike on Tuesday, June 30, during the 127th week, in 57 prisons across Iran.
