While the Islamic Republic’s execution machine continues to slaughter political prisoners and protesters with unprecedented speed, members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign have gone on a hunger strike for the 146th consecutive week in 66 prisons across the country. This protest is in response to the alarming increase in the issuance and carrying out of death sentences, torture leading to death in detention centers, and the regime’s disregard for the fundamental rights of prisoners. By standing against systematic repression, the hunger strikers are once again making the voices of the anonymous victims and prisoners awaiting execution heard by the world.
Please find the full text of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign statement below:
Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in its 146th Week in 66 Prisons Across the Country
Execution and Repression; the Velayat-e Faqih’s Killing Machine Continues to Claim Victims
The regime of execution and repression, on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, simultaneously with the hunger strike of the campaign members, hanged two prisoners of the January uprising, Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi, in Isfahan, and on Saturday, the Baluch compatriot, Mohammad-Aref Shahbakhsh, and on Sunday, Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi, and Reza Zanganeh in Karaj, to once again display its repressive and ruthless face. The news of the death sentences for Hassan Divband and Hamid Kazemi, along with the revelation of torture and mock executions, was published a few days earlier, and the criminal regime immediately murdered them.
In another action, torturers killed Hedayat Lalarizadeh under torture in the Ahvaz security detention center and abandoned his body in the deserts of Khuzestan. Thus, in addition to the execution of dozens of prisoners every week, over the past week, one political prisoner has been murdered every day.
According to the announced statistics, the number of executions in the month of Aban has reached more than 40, and since last Tuesday, at least 15 people have been executed, 6 of whom were political prisoners.
The regime, which fears the people’s uprising, has issued death sentences over the past week for a number of political prisoners, including Amirhossein Mousavi, Amirreza Rezaei, Vahid Ghahremani, Mehdi Jalali, Homayoun Shabankareh, Vahid Khedri-Khah, Hossein Rasouli-Nasab, Mehdi Zarif, Matin Shabani, Amir Delshad, Ali Zaghi, Ilia Akbari, Abolfazl Sedaghat, Mohammad-Mehdi Parsa, and Hossein Mihami. These are only part of the cases that have been publicized so far.
Among these prisoners, one must also mention obscure prisoners such as Mehdi Zanganeh, a twenty-year-old youth in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, whose death sentence has been communicated to him, but whose name and situation remain in news silence and disregard by the media. Mehdi is just one example; there are many young people like him in Iran’s prisons who, without their voices reaching society, are at risk of execution.
Vakilabad, Sheiban, Adelabad, Qezel-Hesar, Evin, Dizelabad, Lakan, Dastgerd of Isfahan, the Central Prison of Zahedan, Urmia, Karaj, and other prisons across the country are full of young people who, with charges such as “Moharebeh” (waging war against God) and “Corruption on Earth,” are awaiting the issuance or carrying out of a death sentence.
These young people are the same ones who took to the streets for their right to determine their own destiny; a generation that demands freedom, equality, and a dignified life and has risen up to achieve its human and fundamental rights.
In countering the executions and anti-human actions in Iran, we have witnessed widespread opposition across the world. Also, the recent report by the UN Secretary-General to the General Assembly indicates a significant increase in executions in Iran and the severe deterioration of the situation of prisoners.
Members of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign are on a hunger strike on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, in the 146th week, in the following 66 prisons:
Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Qezel-Hesar Prison (units 2, 3, and 4), Central Prison of Karaj, Fardis Prison of Karaj, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison of Varamin, Choobindar Prison of Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langarud Prison of Qom, Khorramabad Prison, Borujerd Prison, Yasuj Prison, Asadabad Prison of Isfahan, Dastgerd Prison of Isfahan, Sheiban Prison of Ahvaz, Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz (women’s and men’s wards), Nezami Prison of Shiraz, Adelabad Prison of Shiraz (women’s and men’s wards), Firuzabad Prison of Fars, Dehdasht Prison, Zahedan Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Borazjan Prison, Ramhormoz Prison, Behbahan Prison, Bam Prison, Yazd Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Kahnuj Prison, Tabas Prison, Central Prison of Birjand, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Havigh Talesh Prison, Azbaram Lahijan Prison, Dizelabad Prison of 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, Ilam Prison, Kerman Prison, Borujen Prison, Nishapur Prison, Gachsaran Prison, Nur Prison, Iranshahr Prison, Bandar Abbas Prison, Ziabar Some’eh Sara Prison, Darreh Shahr Prison of Ilam, and Meshginshahr Prison.
146th Week
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
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