The 10th week of the prisoners’ hunger strike to protest mass executions, observed every Tuesday, continued on April 2, 2024.
According to the Iran Center for Human Rights, the “Anti-Death Penalty Tuesdays” hunger strike has been ongoing in Iranian prisons for ten weeks. This marks the second hunger strike since the start of the new year.
Reliable sources report that political prisoners in Qezel Hesar Prison (wards 4, 6, and 8), the women’s ward of Evin, and prisons in Mashhad, Karaj Markazi, Khorramabad, Saqqez, Naqadeh, Khoy, and others announced their determination to continue their hunger strike on “Anti-Death Penalty Tuesdays,” as they have done in previous weeks.
Political prisoners expressed outrage over the death sentence issued against Shahriar Bayat, declaring, “The year that has failed in its spring.”
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, for the tenth consecutive week, striking prisoners went on a hunger strike to protest the medieval practice of executing prisoners, support the families of those executed, and stand in solidarity with those facing death sentences.
§ It should be noted that this hunger strike has been going on since January 29, 2024, in protest against widespread executions, including executions of political-prisoners of conscience, which often began on Tuesdays and takes place every week.
§ Thousands of prisoners are currently on death row in Qezel-Hesar Prison and other prisons. Nearly 340 prisoners are on death row in Lakan prisons in Rasht and Zanjan alone. On the other hand, nearly 50 political prisoners are at risk of execution in Iranian prisons.
