
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 — Resistance Units and Resistance supporters held protest activities in several Iranian cities, including Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, Parand, Rasht, Robat Karim, and Kermanshah, calling for the release of political prisoners and the annulment of death sentences.
Amid an increase in executions and death sentences imposed by the Iranian regime, Resistance Units and Resistance supporters carried out photo actions and put up posters and leaflets bearing slogans against executions. The activities expressed solidarity with political prisoners sentenced to death and called for the immediate annulment of death sentences and the overthrow of the execution regime.
Tehran and Tabriz
Tehran
★ A photo action featuring the following slogans:
“Amirhassan Akbari Monfared must be freed!”
“Political prisoners must be freed!”
“The execution regime must be overthrown!”
“The criminal death sentence against imprisoned student Ehsan Faridi must be overturned!”
“Our response to executions is the red fire of uprising.”
★ Posters and leaflets were put up bearing the following slogans:
“Arghavan Fallahi must be freed!”
“Amirhassan Akbari Monfared’s death sentence must be overturned!”
“Neither prison, nor executions, nor massacres can work anymore.”
“United in voice, united in commitment, we will stand firm until death sentences are abolished.”
Tabriz
★ Posters were put up bearing the slogans:
“We swear by the blood of our comrades: we will stand firm to the end.”
“No to executions.”
Continued Anti-Execution Activities in Karaj, Parand, Rasht, Robat Karim, and Kermanshah
Karaj
★ A photo action and posters featuring the following slogans:
“Our cry is louder and more powerful than your gallows.”
“We demand the abolition of the inhumane death penalty in Iran.”
Parand
★ Photo actions featuring the following slogans:
“Political prisoner Amirhassan Akbari Monfared must be freed!”
“No to executions.”
“No to the execution of Ehsan Faridi and Alireza Mardasi.”
Rasht
★ A photo action and posters featuring the following slogans:
“No to the execution of Zahra Tabari and Manouchehr Fallah.”
“Death to the oppressor, be it the shah or the supreme leader.”
Robat Karim
★ A photo action featuring the slogan “No to executions,” alongside the burning of a noose.
Kermanshah
★ Photo actions and multiple posters featuring the following slogans:
“Bowing our heads is forbidden; mourning is forbidden.”
“We demand the abolition of executions.”
“The abolition of executions is the demand of our people and all the people of Iran.”
“From Kurdistan to Tehran, everyone stands against executions.”
“Political prisoners must be freed.”
“We swear by the blood of our comrades: we will stand firm to the end.”

