"No to Execution Tuesday" Weekly Hunger Strike
Every Tuesday, Wherever You Are, Promote and Support the Prisoners' Weekly Hunger Strike in Iran #NoToExecutions
Since January 28, 2024, prisoners --now in dozens of prisons across Iran-- have gone on hunger strike every Tuesday. "Black Tuesday" is often the day death row prisoners are taken to be executed the next morning at the dawn call to prayer.
Their brave and unifying statement from that day reads:
We, a group of prisoners on death row, are asking for your help. …In Ghezel Hesar, thousands of prisoners have been sentenced to death, and the cases of hundreds of us have been sent for enforcement. We may be executed in the coming days and weeks. Among us are people with all kinds of charges, drug offenders, qisas (retribution) cases, as well as political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, waiting to be executed.
In order to be heard, every Tuesday starting this week, we will go on hunger strike. We chose Tuesday because often it is the last day our cellmates are alive before being transferred to solitary confinement for execution.
We ask you to defend all prisoners sentenced to death, regardless of their political or non-political charges, because we have all been unfairly tried. [The authorities] want to take away our right to live. With your support, perhaps these executions could be stopped. Be our voice, and the voice of our families, in any way you can because prisoners on death row are not just male inmates in Ghezel Hesar, but others in prisons throughout the country as well who reach out for your support.
Immediately, all the prisoners in Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward in Tehran also joined the weekly hunger strike. Since then the number of participating prisons has grown steadily.
In an attempt to break up this powerful campaign and remove its leaders, Ghezel Hesar Prison authorities very violently attacked and emptied the political prisoners' ward in August 2025.
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Weekly statements direct from the campaign: instagram.com/no_to_execution_tuesdays/
Coverage and analysis of political prisoners in Iran: Burn the Cage