On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign enters its 64th consecutive week, now spanning 40 prisons across Iran. This week marks the participation of new voices: women prisoners from Zahedan and Azbaram Lahijan prisons, who have joined the growing resistance movement. In solidarity, all participants are observing a hunger strike today.
Weekly Statement of the Campaign – Week 64
The 64th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign sees its expansion to 40 prisons, strengthened by the recent inclusion of women prisoners from Zahedan and Azbaram Lahijan. This campaign continues to stand against the Iranian regime’s escalating use of the death penalty as a tool of repression.
Amid mounting domestic and international crises, the ruling regime has intensified executions in an attempt to stifle dissent and intimidate the public. On April 8 and 9 alone, 29 people were executed—11 on the first day, 18 on the second.
Among them were five political and ideological prisoners—Malek Ali Fadaei Nasab, Farhad Shakeri, Taj-Mohammad Khormali, Abdolrahman Gorgij, and Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij—who were hanged in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison after ten years of imprisonment and torture.
On April 14, 22-year-old Baluch prisoner Ali Dahani was executed in Zahedan Central Prison. Arrested during the November 2022 nationwide protests—following the massacre of nearly 100 civilians on Bloody Friday in Zahedan and Khash—he was accused of killing four government agents in Bampur County. Dahani was denied a fair trial.
Also among the executed was Behzad, a juvenile offender under the legal age at the time of his alleged crime, who was executed in Gonbad-e Kavus Prison.
In total, over 18 Baluch prisoners were executed between April 8 and April 14.
These brutal acts of state violence represent serious human rights violations. They serve as an urgent alarm for civil society, human rights defenders, and international organizations: silence or inaction in the face of these crimes enables further injustice and endangers more lives.
The “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, now active in 40 prisons, remains committed to resisting the death penalty in all its forms. We call on international human rights and political organizations to amplify the voices of Iran’s political and ideological prisoners—as well as thousands more on death row—most of whom have been denied access to fair and impartial trials.
✊🏽 Today marks Week 64 of the #NoToExecutionTuesdays campaign.
From 40 prisons across Iran, political prisoners are on hunger strike against the regime’s machinery of death. #FreeIran2025 pic.twitter.com/i24FEwJTcc— SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) April 15, 2025
Participating Prisons – Week 64 Hunger Strike
The following 40 prisons are observing this week’s campaign through a unified hunger strike:
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Evin Prison (Women’s Ward, Wards 4 & 8)
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Qezel-Hesar Prison (Units 3 & 4)
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Karaj Central Prison
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Greater Tehran Prison
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Khorin Varamin Prison
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Choubindar Qazvin Prison
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Arak Prison
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Khorramabad Prison
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Asadabad Isfahan Prison
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Dastgerd Isfahan Prison
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Sheyban Ahvaz Prison
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Sepidar Ahvaz Prison (Men’s and Women’s Wards)
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Shiraz Nezam Prison
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Adelabad Shiraz Prison (Men’s and Women’s Wards)
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Borazjan Prison
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Ramhormoz Prison
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Bam Prison
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Kahnooj Prison
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Tabas Prison
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Jovin Prison
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Vakilabad Mashhad Prison
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Gonbad-e Kavus Prison
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Qaemshahr Prison
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Rasht Prison (Men’s and Women’s Wards)
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Rudsar Prison
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Haviq Talesh Prison
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Dizelabad Kermanshah Prison
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Ardabil Prison
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Tabriz Prison
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Urmia Prison
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Salmas Prison
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Khoy Prison
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Naqadeh Prison
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Miandoab Prison
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Saqqez Prison
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Baneh Prison
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Marivan Prison
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Kamyaran Prison
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Zahedan Prison (Women’s Ward)
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Azbaram Lahijan Prison
The campaign remains a collective voice of resistance from inside the prison walls—against injustice, against repression, and against state-sanctioned killing.