Iran’s grassroots prisoner-led campaign “No to Execution Tuesdays” marked its 102nd consecutive week on January 6, 2026, with coordinated hunger strikes across 55 prisons nationwide, amid a sharp escalation in executions and ongoing mass protests across the country.
In its latest statement, the campaign directly links the surge in executions to the regime’s attempt to suppress a society demanding fundamental change. The prisoners describe Iran’s ruling system as an “execution government” and report that more than 2,200 people were executed in 2025 alone, including 19 political and ideological prisoners.
The statement declares: “At the beginning of the year 2026, we are in the one hundred and second week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign, while the execution government, in the past year [2025], has hanged more than 2,200 of our fellow citizens on the gallows, 19 of whom were political and ideological prisoners.”
NCRI Statement: #Iranian Political Prisoner Ehsan Rostami Faces Execution on Charges of Collaborating with @Mojahedineng https://t.co/ezkgvwWUa0
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) December 24, 2025
Political Prisoners at Immediate Risk
The campaign warns that new death sentences continue to be issued. This week, Seyed Mohammad Mousavi, a political prisoner from Shadgan held in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, was sentenced to death, joining what the statement describes as “dozens of other political prisoners, each of whose lives is in danger.”
The prisoners further report that since the beginning of Dey (22 December 2025) alone, Iranian regime authorities have executed 167 people, including one woman, underscoring the accelerating pace of state killings.
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Executions, torture, and attacks on women, minorities, civil society, and… pic.twitter.com/hx6vVKi9i0— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) January 3, 2026
Hunger Strikes Amid Nationwide Protests
The 102nd week of hunger strikes coincides with the tenth consecutive day of nationwide protests, driven by Iran’s deep economic collapse and political repression. The statement emphasizes that the protesters’ core demand is the replacement of the current authoritarian system, which has ruled for 47 years.
The campaign states: “We are on hunger strike this week while the people of Iran, in protest against catastrophic economic and political conditions, have taken to demonstrations, gatherings, and strikes for the tenth consecutive day, and their main demand is change of this authoritarian government.”
Expressing solidarity with the uprising, the prisoners declare: “We salute and honor those who have lost their lives in this nationwide uprising and announce our solidarity with the heroic and freedom-seeking people of Iran. We will stand beside them until the end.”
In a country where the state treats death as a governing instrument, resistance has taken on a stark and deeply human form. The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, led by #Iranian political prisoners, has now entered its one hundred and first consecutive week.…
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) December 30, 2025
Repression Will Not Silence Demands
The statement directly challenges the regime’s use of violence, arrests, torture, and forced confessions, insisting that these tactics have failed to silence the movement:
“Neither direct gunfire against young people, nor the arrest of students, nor torture and forced confessions from protesters can silence the voice of justice-seeking.”
The prisoners frame the current struggle as part of a long confrontation with dictatorship, concluding with a clear vision of the outcome:
“Without doubt, the end of these struggles—after years of oppression and tyranny—will be the realization of freedom, equality, and democracy for all Iranians.”
Hunger Strikes in 55 Prisons
On Tuesday, January 6, 2026, prisoners participating in the campaign launched hunger strikes in 55 prisons, including major facilities such as Evin, Qezel Hesar, Greater Tehran Prison, Gharchak, Sheiban Ahvaz, Sepidar Ahvaz, Adel Abad Shiraz, Zahedan, Mashhad, Tabriz, Urmia, Sanandaj, Ilam, and dozens of others across the country.
The scale and continuity of the campaign—now exceeding two full years—have made “No to Execution Tuesdays” one of the most sustained forms of organized resistance inside Iran’s prison system.
400 prominent women issue appeal to halt execution of Iranian political prisoner Zahra Tabari https://t.co/ujdN5gbA7q
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 24, 2025
A Voice from Behind Bars
As executions intensify and protests expand, the statement makes clear that Iran’s prisons are not silent spaces of submission, but active fronts in the broader struggle for change. By synchronizing hunger strikes with street protests, the campaign sends a unified message: state violence cannot restore legitimacy, and fear has lost its power.
Week 102 of “No to Execution Tuesdays” stands as both an indictment of Iran regime’s execution policy and a declaration that resistance—inside and outside prison walls—continues unabated.