On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, prisoners across 48 prisons in Iran are marking the 77th week of the nationwide “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign by launching coordinated hunger strikes. With Yazd Prison joining for the first time, this growing campaign continues to amplify the voices of those opposing executions and state-sanctioned killings from behind bars.
This week’s joint statement from the prisoners focuses on the grave risks facing six political prisoners, including three Arab prisoners recently moved to solitary confinement and three others sentenced to death twice.
It also highlights the systematic use of public executions as a tool for intimidation rather than justice.
Their full statement reads:
“Public executions are a tool to suppress uprisings and public anger, not the execution of justice; they are instruments of intimidation, not of law.”
Week 77 of #NoToExecutionTuesdays: 48 prisons now join the hunger strike, including Yazd.
New death sentences, solitary confinement for 3 Arab political prisoners, 44 executions in 3 weeks.#StopExecutionsInIran pic.twitter.com/6lnjlSvqm6— SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) July 15, 2025
On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, prisoners in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign are on hunger strike in the following 48 prisons:
Qezel Hesar Prison (Units 3 and 4)
Central Karaj Prison
Fardis Karaj Prison
Greater Tehran Prison
Qarchak Prison
Khorein Varamin Prison
Choobindar Qazvin Prison
Ahar Prison
Arak Prison
Khorramabad Prison
Yasuj Prison
Asadabad Prison (Esfahan)
Dastgerd Esfahan Prison
Sheiban Prison, Ahvaz
Sepidar Prison, Ahvaz (men’s and women’s wards)
Nezam Prison, Shiraz
Adelabad Prison, Shiraz (men’s and women’s wards)
Firuzabad Prison, Fars
Zahedan Prison (women’s ward)
Borazjan Prison
Ramhormoz Prison
Behbahan Prison
Bam Prison
Kahnouj Prison
Tabas Prison
Mashhad Prison
Gonbad-e Kavus Prison
Qaemshahr Prison
Rasht Prison (men’s and women’s wards)
Rudsar Prison
Haviq Talesh Prison
Ezbaram Lahijan Prison
Dizelabad Prison, 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
Yazd Prison
77th Week
July 15, 2025
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