{"id":72505,"date":"2025-04-15T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=72505"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:38:29","slug":"no-to-executions-tuesdays-campaign-in-iran-reaches-40-prisons-in-its-64th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/human-rights\/2025\/04\/no-to-executions-tuesdays-campaign-in-iran-reaches-40-prisons-in-its-64th-week\/72505\/","title":{"rendered":"No to Executions Tuesdays\u2019 Campaign in Iran Reaches 40 Prisons in Its 64th Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\" — The 64th Week of the \u201cNo to Executions Tuesdays\u201d Campaign in Iran\u2019s Prisons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, the \u201cNo to Executions Tuesdays<\/a>\u201d campaign enters its 64th consecutive week<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n
Weekly Statement of the Campaign \u2013 Week 64<\/h3>\n
The 64th week<\/a> of the \u201cNo to Execution Tuesdays\u201d 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\u2019s escalating use of the death penalty as a tool of repression.<\/p>\n
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\u201411 on the first day, 18 on the second.<\/p>\n
Among them were five political and ideological prisoners\u2014Malek Ali Fadaei Nasab, Farhad Shakeri, Taj-Mohammad Khormali, Abdolrahman Gorgij, and Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij\u2014who were hanged in Mashhad\u2019s Vakilabad Prison after ten years of imprisonment and torture.<\/p>\n
On April 14, 22-year-old Baluch prisoner Ali Dahani was executed in Zahedan Central Prison. Arrested during the November 2022 nationwide protests\u2014following the massacre of nearly 100 civilians on Bloody Friday in Zahedan and Khash\u2014he was accused of killing four government agents in Bampur County. Dahani was denied a fair trial.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In total, over 18 Baluch prisoners were executed between April 8 and April 14.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The \u201cNo to Executions Tuesdays\u201d 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\u2019s political and ideological prisoners\u2014as well as thousands more on death row\u2014most of whom have been denied access to fair and impartial trials.<\/p>\n
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\u270a\ud83c\udffd Today marks Week 64 of the #NoToExecutionTuesdays<\/a> campaign.
\nFrom 40 prisons across Iran, political prisoners are on hunger strike against the regime\u2019s machinery of death. #FreeIran2025<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/i24FEwJTcc<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n