The 2022 uprising, as one of the most important turning points in the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom, has shaken the foundations of the ruling regime to such an extent that it sees no alternative but to intensify repression in various forms.
The exponential trend of issuing for and carrying out numerous death sentences of political prisoners over the past two years, while reminiscent of the regime’s repression in the 1980s, is a sign of the fear and terror of the political elite about the advance of Iran’s risen and justice-seeking society.
Collective death sentences have been issued for six political prisoners, Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani Amerian, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi, and Akbar Daneshvarkar, while a group of youths were recently sentenced to death in a case known as the Children of Ekbatan.
In addition to these mass death sentences, since the beginning of 2024, other political prisoners, such as Pakhshan Azizi, Varisheh Moradi, Shahriar Bayat, Behrouz Ehsani, Mehdi Hassani, and Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, have also been imprisoned while facing death sentences.
We, a group of political prisoners in Evin Prison, while fundamentally opposing the death penalty, declare our support for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who have faced the death penalty.
We believe that freedom struggles require collective solidarity in defense of human rights standards, including the formation of a social resistance to the death penalty.
We call on all the people of Iran, from all walks of life, to protest in any way possible, along with political prisoners, against the issuance of such inhumane and reactionary sentences.
Today is the time to line up in the streets against execution. The time to save the lives of political prisoners is the time to “no to executions.”
The names of the signatories in alphabetical order:
Shiva Esmaeili, Reza Akbari Monfared, Golrokh Iraei, Yedi Bahari, Maryam Bano Nasiri, Sakineh Parvaneh, Hossein Piri, Forough Taghipour, Mohammad Habibi, Mehran Raouf, Reza Rezaei, Davood Razavi, Khosro Rahnama, Khashayar Sefidi, Maziar Seyednejad, Hossein Shanbehzadeh, Hossein Shahsavari, Zahra Safaei, Moloud Safaei, Sepehr Ziaei, Fatemeh Ziaee Azad, Marzieh Farsi, Elaheh Fouladi, Foad Fathi, Nasrollah Fallahi, Azar Kourvandi, Esmaeil Gerami, Narges Mohammadi, Amir Hossein Moradi, Babak Moradi, Ali Moezzi, Farzad Moazami Goudarzi, Mohammad Masoud Moeini, Javad Manbari, Mohammad Najafi, Tahereh Nouri, Asadollah Hadi, Maryam Yahyawi, Ali Younesi, Mir Yousef Younesi.
