On the eve of June 30, 2026, political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in 57 prisons across the country began the 127th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign with a hunger strike, in protest of the ongoing execution machine and suppression of the government. This widespread strike takes place under circumstances where the judiciary, by intensifying security pressures and opening hundreds of cases against protesters, has escalated the process of issuing and executing death sentences across the country. While demanding the complete abolition of the death penalty, the hunger strikers strongly protested the blatant violation of human dignity and the deprivation of seeking-justice families of knowledge about the burial location of their loved ones.
Please find the full text of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign statement below:
Continuation of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in 57 Different Prisons in the 127th Week
The ruling tyrannical government’s machine of execution and suppression continues its work, and we witness daily executions of political prisoners and public-crime prisoners across the country. The state judiciary has announced that since the beginning of the recent war, it has arrested 3,292 individuals on charges of “cooperating with the enemy.”
These statistics are published at a time when, following the suppression of the nationwide protests of January 2026 by military and security forces, the crackdown on protesters has entered a new phase, and a large portion of those arrested face the issuance of death sentences or long-term imprisonment.
The Prosecutor of Sari stated that 700 cases have been filed against the January protesters, and Alamolhoda, the corrupt Friday Prayer Leader of Mashhad, has also reported thousands of cases for those arrested in the January uprising.
The number of executions in the Iranian month of Khordad of this year (May 22- June 21) reaches 140 individuals. This government’s record is filled with extensive and blatant violations of human rights and the use of execution as a tool for suppression and intimidation.
Thousands of families in Iran are grieving loved ones who have fallen victim to the government’s repressive will in an inhumane process. Meanwhile, the voice of a father asking, “Where is my son’s grave?” is a voice that rises from the depths of suffering and injustice; the question of the father of Vahid Bani Amerian, a political prisoner who was executed in Qezelhesar Prison in March–April of this year along with five other political prisoners, and of other families whose children’s bodies were not returned, is not merely a personal demand, but the cry of many seeking justice who have been deprived of even the basic right to know the burial location of their loved ones.
This deprivation is the continuation of punishment after death and a blatant violation of human dignity, where suffering neither ends nor is even allowed mourning. In the face of these suppressions and medieval barbarism, the voice of the prisoners in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign remains loud. Without stopping, every Tuesday, they remind us that the death penalty must be abolished, and freedom and equality must be established in Iran.
The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in its 127th week, is on hunger strike in the following 57 prisons:
Evin Prison (women’s and men’s wards), Qezelhesar Prison (units 2, 3, and 4), Karaj Central Prison, Fardis Prison in Karaj, Greater Tehran Prison, Qarchak Prison, Khorin Prison in Varamin, Choobindar Prison in Qazvin, Ahar Prison, Arak Prison, Langaroud 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 (women’s and men’s wards), Nezam Prison in Shiraz, Adelabad Prison in Shiraz (women’s and men’s wards), Firozabad Prison in 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, Birjand Central Prison, Mashhad Prison, Gorgan Prison, Sabzevar Prison, Gonbad-e Kavus Prison, Qaemshahr Prison, Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards), Rudsar Prison, Haviq Prison in Talesh, Azbaram Prison in Lahijan, Dizel Abad 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, Ilam Prison, and Kerman Prison.
Week 127
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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