{"id":345653,"date":"2026-06-09T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=345653"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:58:34","slug":"prisoner-hunger-strike-enters-124th-week-in-56-iranian-prisons-amid-fresh-wave-of-death-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/prisoner-hunger-strike-enters-124th-week-in-56-iranian-prisons-amid-fresh-wave-of-death-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Hunger Strike Enters 124th Week in 56 Iranian Prisons amid Fresh Wave of Death Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The coordinated prison protest campaign known as “No to Executions Tuesdays<\/a>” entered its 124th consecutive week today, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, against a backdrop of escalating state repression and a sharp rise in capital punishment across Iran. According to a formal statement released by the campaign, political and ideological prisoners across 56 different penitentiaries nationwide have launched a joint hunger strike. This mass protest comes as the Iranian regime’s judiciary intensifies its use of the death penalty, hanging at least 49 individuals since the beginning of Khordad.<\/p>\n

The campaign\u2019s weekly briefing highlighted a severe escalation in targeted sentences against political dissidents. In Lakan Prison in Rasht, the judiciary has re-confirmed the death sentence of political prisoner Yaghoub Derakhshan<\/a>. Fresh capital sentences have also been newly issued for three political prisoners: Yasin Shahbakhsh, Hassan Mosalavi, and Ali Kamali. Furthermore, four political detainees in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz\u2014Farshad Etemadifar, Alireza Mardasi, Masoud Jamei, and Reza Abdali\u2014face imminent execution, with activists warning that their lives are in immediate danger.<\/p>\n

“The members of the ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ campaign, who have stood against these inhuman executions for the 124th consecutive week and a number of whose members have been executed or placed under prison and security agency pressure in various ways, raise their voices louder than ever and once again in defense of the fundamental right to life; a right that is the source of all human rights, and guarding it is considered a sign of maturity, equality, freedom, and humanity of any society,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

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For 124 consecutive weeks, political prisoners across Iran have continued #NoDeathPenaltyTuesdays<\/a> campaign, holding a hunger strike this week in 56 prisons nationwide.
As executions surge and more prisoners face death sentences, these courageous inmates are raising their voices\u2026<\/p>\n

— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) June 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n