The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign underlines that Iran’s regime Executes 71 in one month amid crackdown on political prisoners
July 22, 2025 – In the 78th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, prisoners in 48 prisons across Iran launched coordinated hunger strikes to protest the genocidal regime’s use of the death penalty and escalating repression against political prisoners.
Since June 21, Iranian authorities have executed at least 71 individuals. The campaign emphasized that these executions were carried out without fair trials and often relied on forced confessions extracted under duress.
“These are not acts of justice—they are acts of terror,” the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign declared in its statement.
The surge in executions has been accompanied by intensified persecution of the campaign’s own imprisoned members. Reports from inside prisons detail mounting threats, physical and psychological torture, arbitrary exile to distant facilities, and the harassment and detention of family members. Political prisoners have also been systematically denied basic legal and medical rights.
“This systemic repression is part of the regime’s unrelenting attempt to silence a society that, despite all pressure, continues to insist on its right to justice, freedom, human dignity, and self-determination,” the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign stated.
This week’s statement reaffirms the campaign’s condemnation of capital punishment and its continued resistance against the regime’s use of execution as a tool of fear.
“We wholeheartedly condemn this violent, inhumane, and unjust campaign of executions and repression. Execution is not a path to justice—it is a tool of terror. No state should have the right to take a human life, especially under a judiciary that blatantly violates basic legal rights.”
As the “No to Execution Tuesdays” movement enters its 78th week, it remains committed to its demand: the full and permanent abolition of the death penalty in Iran.
“Our cry of ‘No to Execution’ will grow louder each week—until the day executions are abolished in Iran forever.”