Political Prisoners in Iran Enter 91st Week of Hunger Strikes as ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Spreads to 52 Prisons
Iran Focus, October 21, 2025
The “No To Executions Tuesdays” campaign praises the successful strike at Qezelhesar Prison that saved inmates from the gallows.
The “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign is entering its 91st consecutive week, a powerful testament to the relentless resistance inside Iranian prisons against the regime’s policies of oppression and capital punishment. This week’s action follows a heroic hunger strike by prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison, who successfully saved several of their fellow inmates from imminent execution amid a brutal wave of state-sanctioned killings aimed at quelling popular dissent.
The Prisoners’ Statement
Organizers of the campaign praised the steadfastness of prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, who held a week-long hunger strike under the slogan “No to Execution Tuesdays.” Their resilience forced authorities to return six of their fellow inmates from solitary confinement, where they had been taken in preparation for their executions. The statement described the strike as a “defiance of death,” as the regime could have easily expedited the sentences in retaliation for their resistance.
In a continuation of this mobilization, prisoners’ families held a protest on Sunday, October 19, outside the regime’s parliament to condemn the ongoing policies of repression and execution.The campaign’s statement frames the struggle as a confrontation with an “anti-human” regime that carries out brutal mass executions. The statistics cited are grim:
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