July 15, 2025 – The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign marked its 77th consecutive week with the participation of prisoners in 48 prisons, including newly-joined Yazd Prison. This ongoing coordinated hunger strike challenges the genocidal regime’s escalating use of executions as a tool of control and repression.
In their weekly statement, the campaign reported:
“This is the voice of resistance from within the prisons of the Supreme Leader’s system—against executions and state-sponsored killing.”
International concern continues to grow. Ms. Mai Sato, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, raised alarms over the fate of three Arab political prisoners—Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, and Mohammadreza Moghaddam—who were recently moved to solitary confinement in Ahvaz and face imminent execution. Their families have received no updates, raising fears of enforced disappearance, a method of state terror frequently used by the regime.
Meanwhile, the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court issued two death sentences each for Farshad Etemadi-Far, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi, all political prisoners. Separately, retrial requests were rejected for the fourth time for Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani, whose cases are marred by serious legal inconsistencies. Authorities continue to deny their lawyers access to case files, citing secrecy—an illegal obstruction widely practiced in political trials.
The campaign also reported a sharp increase in executions:
At least 44 people have been executed since June 21, including one woman. Two of these executions were carried out in public, in Miandoab and Bukan. The statement emphasized:
“This is only the documented number. Every day, on average, two people are being hanged in this regime’s death factories.”
The addition of Yazd Prison reflects the growing reach and determination of the campaign, even under intensified crackdowns. The statement affirmed:
“This expansion shows the people’s awakening and determination to resist the medieval machinery of death.”
Despite heightened threats, the families of the condemned continue to participate in weekly protests. The campaign called on the public to actively confront these state spectacles of fear:
“Freedom-loving Iranians must transform these stages of execution into stages of resistance and exposure.”
In closing, the campaign urged collective solidarity:
“Do not leave these families alone. Our power lies in our unity—and we will sweep away this regime’s apparatus of execution.”