On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, in the ninety-fourth week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, with the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison joining, this protest movement is being held in 54 prisons across the country. In this week’s statement, the prisoners, while commemorating the victims of the November 2019 uprising, have protested the frenzied wave of executions, which has reached 165 cases since the beginning of Aban (October 23) alone. The statement also points to the death sentence issued for Reza Abdali and the worrying transfer of Ehsan Afrashteh and Mehdi Farid, two security prisoners.
The full text of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign statement can be seen below:
Expansion of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in its Ninety-Fourth Week to 54 Different Prisons
With the Men’s Ward of Zahedan Prison Joining the Campaign
We begin on the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 uprising by commemorating the victims who were brutally killed by the despotic regime.
From the rise of the Velayat-e Faqih dictatorship in February 1979 to the November 2019 uprising, from November 2019 to the nationwide uprising of 2022 and to this day, the people of Iran have walked the costly path toward freedom and human dignity. Decades of repression, discrimination, and killing have not been able to extinguish the people’s will for liberation and freedom.
In recent days, Reza Abdali, a political prisoner and one of our Ahwazi Arab compatriots, has been sentenced to death. We demand the immediate annulment of this sentence and a halt to the cycle of death in Iran’s prisons.
In other news, on Monday, Ehsan Afrashteh and Mehdi Farid, two security prisoners sentenced to death, were transferred from Ward 7 of Evin Prison to an unknown location after being beaten. Although political prisoners tried to prevent this transfer, it is feared that the sentences of these prisoners will be carried out.
In an era where the call for justice is met with imprisonment, torture, and execution, the social repercussion of unbridled repression among the most deprived segments of society sometimes manifests in the painful form of self-immolation-an act of protest born from one’s very life.
This past week, we were faced with the news of the death of Kourosh Kheyri, a driver for the Khorramabad Department of Education, who self-immolated to protest his dismissal from work; similarly, the heart-wrenching news of the self-immolation of Ahmad Baldi, a student from Ahvaz who took this action to protest the demolition of his kiosk, set our souls ablaze. These are bitter examples of the silent screams of a people who, under the weight of pressure and humiliation, find their own lives to be their only means of protest.
The regime, which seeks to silence the voice of protest with executions and repression, has frantically intensified executions during these volatile, critical, and crisis-ridden days in Iran, such that 165 individuals have been executed since the beginning of Aban of this year (October 23). In the past week alone, 72 people, including one woman, were executed, and on November 3 and 4 alone, 29 individuals lost their lives on the gallows.
Official statistics show that more than 1,313 executions have been carried out in Iran since the beginning of the year (March 21, 2025). A horrifying number that indicates the normalization of death under the shadow of injustice.
The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign serves as a reminder that no government can silence the loud voice of truth, justice, and freedom with executions; and it calls on all awakened consciences to turn the cry of “No to Execution” into a great wave in every city and street, because inaction and silence are tantamount to the taking of innocent and defenseless lives in the prisons of the ruling, bloodthirsty tyranny of the Velayat-e Faqih.
The prisoners, with the backing of the Iranian people, are standing against the machine of fear and terror. In the ninety-fourth week of the campaign’s strike, the men’s ward of Zahedan Prison has also joined the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign.
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, in its ninety-fourth week, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign is on a hunger strike in the following 54 prisons:
Evin Prison (Wards 6 and 7), Qezel Hesar Prison (Units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison in Karaj, Greater Tehran Penitentiary, Qarchak Prison, Khoorin Prison in Varamin, Choubindar Prison in Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Prison in Qom, Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison in Isfahan, Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz (men’s and women’s wards), Nezam Prison in Shiraz, Adelabad Prison in Shiraz (men’s and women’s wards), Firuzabad Prison in Fars, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison, Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Mashhad Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Haviq Prison in Talesh, Ezbaram Prison in Lahijan, Dizelabad Prison in Kermanshah, Ardabil Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Salmas Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Miandoab Prison, Mahabad Prison, Bukan Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, Sanandaj Prison, Kamyaran Prison, and Ilam Prison.
Week 94
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
#No_To_Execution_Tuesdays_Campaign
