The weekly hunger strike campaign known as No to Execution Tuesdays has entered its 92nd week, now encompassing 54 prisons across Iran after two additional facilities—Tircheh Block Prison in Borujerd and Ilam Prison—joined the protest. The announcement by the campaign cited an official tally of 283 executions in Mehr 1404 (September–October 2025) by the clerical dictatorship, marking the month as the bloodiest in decades.
Since last Tuesday, the campaign states, 59 additional executions, including two women, have been carried out. The surge in executions coincides with new death sentences issued and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court against political prisoners such as Kavous Abdollah-zadeh and Zahra Tabari (in Lakan Prison, Rasht), as well as the reaffirmation of the sentences for Manouchehr Fallah and Ehsan Faridi.
On October 13 prison officials attempted to transfer Ehsan Afresheh from Evin Prison for execution—a move reportedly thwarted by other inmates, though the risk remains imminent. The campaign describes these measures as a clear attempt by the regime to instill fear and suppress public dissent, saying: “Execution, as a tool of survival for a decades-old corrupt regime, carries no religious or political justification. Each execution is a fresh wound upon society, a sign of the failure of law, human dignity and justice.”
As the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign enters its 92nd week, prisoners in 54 prisons—including Borujerd and Ilam—continue their protest against the regime’s machinery of death. #StopExecutionsInIran#NoDeathPenaltyTuesdayshttps://t.co/ZKHr7gD0op
— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) October 28, 2025
Families of condemned prisoners, meanwhile, gathered in front of the Iranian regime’s parliament chanting “No to Execution”, demonstrating that even under heavy repression the cry for life and freedom endures.
The campaign concluded with a formal demand:
-
Immediate cessation of all executions
-
Revocation of all death sentences
-
Unrestricted access for international human-rights bodies to Iranian prisons and detainees
The expansion of the campaign nationwide and the spike in executions underscore both the severity of the crisis and the determination of Iran’s prisoners and civil society to resist.