{"id":338294,"date":"2025-10-17T17:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338294"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:21:45","slug":"irans-political-prisoners-inspire-1500-inmates-on-hunger-strike-against-the-clerical-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/irans-political-prisoners-inspire-1500-inmates-on-hunger-strike-against-the-clerical-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Political Prisoners Inspire 1,500 Inmates on Hunger Strike Against the Clerical Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338295\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Ghezel Hesar Prison have launched a mass hunger strike\u2014 October 15, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison-741x420.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iranian-death-row-prisoners-in-Ghezel-Hesar-Prison-696x395.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Ghezel Hesar Prison have launched a mass hunger strike\u2014 October 15, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"528\"><strong><em data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"528\">Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"987\">Amid a surge of executions and intensifying repression across Iran, courageous political prisoners continue to expose the clerical regime\u2019s brutality from within its own prisons. Their defiance has now ignited a wave of solidarity among ordinary inmates \u2014 most notably the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/in-irans-ghezel-hesar-prison-1500-death-row-prisoners-continue-hunger-strike-for-fourth-day\/\">1,500 prisoners at Ghezel Hesar Prison<\/a>, who launched a hunger strike this week to protest inhumane conditions, systematic torture, and death sentences issued through sham trials.<\/p>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"request-68ed45d6-d398-832f-a8c2-5874fe9100f2-6\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-48\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] thread-sm:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] thread-lg:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] thread-lg:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"fedf111c-27dc-4a90-b2a9-19a0f13d17f8\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-instant\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"593\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">According to observers, many of these inmates drew strength from the steadfastness of political prisoners who, after years of imprisonment, torture, and deprivation, continue to stand firm against the clerical dictatorship. Their defiance \u2014 echoed nationwide through the <a href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/2025\/10\/14\/no-to-execution-tuesdays-52-iran-prisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cNo to Execution Tuesdays\u201d campaign<\/a> \u2014 has become a rallying cry for justice and resistance inside Iran\u2019s prisons. Even amid a surge of executions and the regime\u2019s blatant contempt for international law, these prisoners have emerged as the moral core of a growing movement that refuses to bow to tyranny.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UN Member states must confront the Iranian authorities\u2019 execution spree with the urgency it demands. Over 1,000 people have already been executed in Iran in 2025 \u2013 an average of 4 a day. The lives of thousands more on death row are at risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%86%D9%87_%D8%A8%D9%87_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0646\u0647_\u0628\u0647_\u0627\u0639\u062f\u0627\u0645<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sCe2a7oRpJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/sCe2a7oRpJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kmgFIn3YnU\">pic.twitter.com\/kmgFIn3YnU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmnestyIran\/status\/1978865671590043905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1474\" data-end=\"1517\">Death Sentences and Judicial Murder<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"2014\">The regime\u2019s so-called judiciary, under the command of Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, has intensified the machinery of execution. This week, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of political prisoner <a href=\"https:\/\/en.iranhrs.org\/urgent-alert-mehdi-vafaei-sani-transferred-to-unknown-location-from-evin-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mehdi Vafaei-Sani<\/a>, charged with \u201cspreading corruption on Earth\u201d \u2014 a vague accusation routinely used to silence opponents. His lawyer confirmed that the same court had previously overturned two identical sentences, but each time, intelligence agencies intervened to reinstate them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2016\" data-end=\"2439\">This grotesque cycle of reversal and reinstatement reflects not a system of justice but a political instrument of terror. Mohseni-Ejei\u2019s recent public call for \u201cno leniency with traitors\u201d was a clear order to accelerate executions and crush dissent. Over 1,000 people have been executed in 2025 alone \u2014 the highest rate in decades \u2014 as the regime seeks to terrorize a restless society increasingly ready to rise against it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the eve of International Day Against the Death Penalty, MEPs have united in a call to halt execution of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MohammadJavadVafaeiSani?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MohammadJavadVafaeiSani<\/a>. His life is at imminent risk. As we prepares to mark this important day, we urge for an immediate end to executions in Iran.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopExecutionsInIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopExecutionsInIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bA8VDC9RnS\">pic.twitter.com\/bA8VDC9RnS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Friends of a Free Iran &#8211; EP (@FOFI_EP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOFI_EP\/status\/1975922956250337342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2441\" data-end=\"2503\">Torture, Forced Confessions, and Fabricated Narratives<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2505\" data-end=\"3096\">The regime\u2019s desperation to project control has led to a resurgence of forced confessions broadcast on state television. In recent weeks, videos have surfaced showing prisoners visibly tortured, coerced into thanking their interrogators and \u201cconfessing\u201d to crimes they never committed. Among them were young artists and dissidents accused of \u201cdisrupting public order\u201d for their music or social activism, as well as individuals\u00a0who absurdly \u201cconfessed\u201d to collaborating with Israel during the June Twelve-Day War \u2014 despite being arrested months before the conflict even began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3098\" data-end=\"3617\">These falsified broadcasts are designed to reinforce a collapsing narrative of regime strength while concealing the regime\u2019s moral and political bankruptcy. Even families of the executed are targeted: following the group <a href=\"https:\/\/alhurra.com\/en\/5613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">execution of six Ahvazi Arab prisoners<\/a>, authorities summoned their relatives, threatened them, and forbade memorial services. The victims were buried in secret, without final visits \u2014 yet their names, courage, and defiance live on through underground networks that continue to report the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scores of people in Iran, including Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, are at risk of execution following grossly unfair trials and convictions on politically-motivated charges by Revolutionary Courts. Iran&#39;s authorities must halt all executions now! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%86%D9%87_%D8%A8%D9%87_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0646\u0647_\u0628\u0647_\u0627\u0639\u062f\u0627\u0645<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bBOgDIYUWW\">https:\/\/t.co\/bBOgDIYUWW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zgYbdJ98k\">pic.twitter.com\/3zgYbdJ98k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmnestyIran\/status\/1975171765190938949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3619\" data-end=\"3654\">Medical Neglect as a Weapon<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3656\" data-end=\"4111\">Medical neglect has become another instrument of slow execution. On September 25, political prisoner <a href=\"https:\/\/wncri.org\/2025\/09\/25\/political-prisoner-somayeh-rashidi-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Somayeh Rashidi<\/a> died in Qarchak Women\u2019s Prison after repeated epileptic seizures were ignored by prison officials. She was accused of faking her symptoms and denied transfer to hospital. Her death provoked outrage across Iran\u2019s prisons, sparking sit-ins and hunger strikes \u2014 protests that now extend to Ghezel Hesar, Evin, and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4113\" data-end=\"4702\">Reports also confirm that Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving her 18th year of a life sentence, is being denied urgent medical care unless she signs a forced \u201cletter of repentance.\u201d Her condition is deteriorating, but she continues to refuse submission. Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/2025\/09\/30\/mohammad-ali-akbari-monfared-on-brink-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad-Ali Akbari Monfared<\/a>, a supporter of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), remains in critical condition after an untreated infection spread through his body, while families of other prisoners say authorities are deliberately withholding medical care to break their will.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Maryam_Rajavi<\/a>: In Memory of the Rebellious Somayeh<br \/>Salutations to the political prisoners in Qarchak and Evin who, in honoring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SomayehRashidi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SomayehRashidi<\/a>, rose with the cries of \u201cDeath to Khamenei\u201d and \u201cDeath to the Dictator,\u201d&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoImpunity4Mullahs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoImpunity4Mullahs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PXzdmGFD43\">https:\/\/t.co\/PXzdmGFD43<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4FreedominIran\/status\/1974378904489259210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4704\" data-end=\"4768\">Ghezel Hesar Hunger Strike: A Collective Cry for Justice<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4770\" data-end=\"5239\">Inside Ghezel Hesar Prison, where executions have become routine, 1,500 inmates have joined a hunger strike \u2014 a rare act of unity across political and non-political prisoners alike. Sources say their protest was inspired by political detainees who refuse to bow under torture and death sentences. The strikers demand an end to arbitrary executions, adequate food and medical care, and accountability for prison officials responsible for killings and mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"5241\" data-end=\"5543\">The regime has responded with intimidation, solitary confinement, and transfers to high-security wards. But the movement continues to grow, fueled by the knowledge that the world is watching \u2014 and by the legacy of Iran\u2019s long line of prisoners of conscience who have faced death rather than submission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inmates of Ward 2, Ghezel Hesar Prison, on hunger strike (Oct 14, 2025), call on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@antonioguterres<\/a> &amp; the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> to help <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopExecutionsInIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopExecutionsInIran<\/a>.<br \/>They warn: \u201cToday they kill us in prison \u2014 tomorrow it will reach the whole nation.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JqomNMQIea\">pic.twitter.com\/JqomNMQIea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1978471668520530262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"5545\" data-end=\"5590\">A Regime Terrified of Its Own Prisons<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"5592\" data-end=\"5893\">The courage of Iran\u2019s political prisoners stands in stark contrast to the weakness of the regime that imprisons them. Even as the mullahs tighten censorship and unleash their judiciary as an instrument of terror, they cannot silence the spirit of resistance that now thrives within the prison walls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"5895\" data-end=\"6275\">Every forced confession, every execution, and every hunger strike tells the same story: a dying theocracy trying to smother its own inevitable end. The defiance spreading from cell to cell \u2014 from the gallows to Ghezel Hesar \u2014 is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/iran-human-rights-record-of-ebrahim-raisi-eyewitness-accounts-mojtaba-akhgar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a reminder that Iran\u2019s prisons<\/a>, once symbols of fear, are becoming the frontlines of a movement that will one day end the clerical dictatorship itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read Amid a surge of executions and intensifying repression across Iran, courageous political prisoners continue to expose the clerical regime&rsquo;s brutality from within its own prisons. 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