In its 82nd week, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign issued a statement denouncing the Iranian regime’s expanding use of executions and the increasing repression against political prisoners and their families.
The statement highlighted the continued lack of information about five political prisoners sentenced to death and members of the campaign — Vahid Bani Amerian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, and Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar — as well as another prisoner on death row, Babak Shahbazi. The campaign described this as “a clear sign of gross human rights violations and the escalating pressure threatening the lives of prisoners.”
The campaign condemned the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the death sentence of political prisoner and labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi. The statement noted that this “once again exposes the brutality and absence of justice within the regime’s judiciary — a machinery of execution serving a dictatorial government that has completely lost its legitimacy in society.”
Amnesty and @UN Special Rapporteur Sound Alarm Over Looming Executions of Five Political Prisoners in #Iran https://t.co/WY00TSgp9q
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) April 18, 2025
A Human Tragedy in Numbers
The campaign stressed that the scale of executions reveals a national tragedy. “Between July 23 and August 17 alone, 136 individuals were executed, and since the beginning of this year (March 2025), 627 people have been hanged,” the statement said. It added: “These numbers are not merely statistics, but accounts of lives destroyed, and families plunged into grief and suffering.”
In recognizing the courage of the victims’ families, the campaign declared: “We extend our gratitude to the courageous and resilient families of victims who, by gathering outside prisons and various locations, have reflected the voices of prisoners.”
The campaign appealed to fellow citizens to stand by those families: “We urge all compatriots not to abandon the families of prisoners, especially those facing imminent execution, in these difficult times.”
#Iran's Political Prisoners Launch Nationwide Hunger Strike in 81st Week of “No to Execution Tuesdays”https://t.co/mOeXFxfYQB
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 12, 2025
Call for Nationwide Protest
The statement called on the public to demonstrate solidarity against the regime’s execution policies: “We call on all people to use every possible means and tool to voice their opposition to unjust sentences and the policy of executions in Iran. Demonstrating human solidarity against this systematic violence is vital, whether through gatherings or accompanying the families of those sentenced to death.”
The campaign further reported that on Tuesday, August 19, its members are on strike in 49 prisons across the country, including Evin, Ghezel Hesar, Karaj Central, Greater Tehran, Qarchak, Mashhad, Urmia, Tabriz, Rasht, Sanandaj, and many others — underscoring the widespread scale of resistance inside Iran’s prison system.