The 96th week of Iran’s “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign arrives under what organizers describe as an alarming acceleration of state executions. The statement warns that the regime is intensifying the killing of prisoners “at an unprecedented speed” and declares that the systematic use of execution to instill fear is “a blatant violation of fundamental human rights and a clear example of a crime against humanity.”
Birjand Central Prison has joined the initiative this week, bringing the total number of participating prisons to 55. According to the campaign, these prisoners are sending the message “No to Execution” from behind prison walls, expanding the nationwide act of resistance despite extreme repression.
The statement underscores the significance of the 72nd United Nations resolution condemning the Iranian regime’s human-rights violations. It notes that the resolution formally recognizes “the 1988 massacre and the concern over its repetition” and denounces “the unprecedented pace of executions and the regime’s use of execution as a tool of intimidation and repression.” Despite this clear international censure, the campaign stresses that the regime “will not stop the executions and killings.”
John Bercow: 100,000 have been slaughtered for standing up to this regime. Last year alone, 39,000 acts of defiance exposed a dictatorship with the world’s worst per-capita execution record. NCRI and #MEKResistanceUnits fight for true pluralist values. https://t.co/v0dFTABqBH
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 15, 2025
A central part of this week’s declaration is the warning that the death sentence issued for Mohammad-Mehdi Soleimani—a detainee from the 2022 uprising—is not an isolated case but rather “a consistent pattern for eliminating protesters and a hallmark of an illegitimate and political judicial process.” The campaign cites severe new statistics: 311 executions in the Persian month of Aban (October 23–November 21), a figure “unprecedented since the 1988 massacre,” as well as 59 executions in the past week and 1,479 since the start of Persian year 1404 (March 21, 2025).
Despite arrests, summons, threats, and constant security pressure, families of death-row prisoners continue to take to the streets every week in defense of their loved ones. The statement praises their resilience and insists that this protest “requires broad support from the people and the international community.”
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This week, on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, prisoners in 55 facilities—including Evin Prison, Ghezel Hesar Prison, Greater Tehran Penitentiary, Qarchak, Zahedan, Mashhad, Rasht, Sanandaj, Urmia, Tabriz, and the newly joined Birjand Central Prison—held hunger strikes as part of the campaign’s ongoing civil resistance inside Iran’s detention system.
The 96th week of “No to Execution Tuesdays” ultimately underscores a single, urgent message: the nationwide escalation of executions demands immediate international attention, accountability, and solidarity with those risking their lives to oppose state-sanctioned killing.