Save the Date - September 20, 2025

Join us for an evening featuring video and dramatic readings -- from Bamdad Bidar (Awake at Dawn/No Nooses), the online magazine created by courageous current and former political prisoners of Iran’s dungeons. Their stories, poems and artwork are part of the prisoner-led campaign to STOP executions in Iran, now focused on preventing the imminent execution of three women activists of oppressed nationalities, Varisheh Moradi, Pakhshan Azizi and Sharifeh Mohammadi.

These prisoners, at great personal risk, are giving powerful voice to billions of people all over the world who aspire to put an end to exploitative, repressive and fascist regimes. They speak at a time of explosive and dangerous turns in world politics. In June Israel, with full US backing of the fascist Trump regime and in the midst of carrying out genocide in Gaza, suddenly attacked Iran in a completely unprovoked and massive bombing campaign aimed at cementing Israel's domination of the region. On the 10th day of this unjustified war, the US itself directly entered in and dropped 30,000 ton bombs on three alleged nuclear enrichment sites in Iran. And then Israel bombed the notorious Evin prison on visiting day, and killed dozens of people. These attacks were not only cruel and vicious, killing over a thousand people, but risked regional war and even nuclear war.

For its part, the fascist Islamic Republic of Iran has seized on the crisis to greatly step up its repression of the Iranian people, especially the political prisoners, with execution by hanging as its leading edge In the face of this extremely difficult situation, and resisting from torture chambers, prisoners have found ways to speak out — some fearlessly condemning both the governments of Israel and the US and their own fascist Islamic rulers. People in the US need to know about this, to learn from their heart and their understanding, and to support their struggle against executions and to free all prisoners.

The many decades-long repression and inspiring fierce resistance of the people of Iran is a trail that runs from the regime of the U.S. imperialist puppet Shah to that of the theocrat Mullah regime today. The months of August and September are indelible markers for millions across generations of Iranians, from the CIA coup on September 18, 1953, to the theocrat’s massacre of over 5000 political prisoners in August-September of 1988, to the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising sparked by Iran’s murder of Mahsa Amini for improper hijab (headscarf) on September 16, 2022, which lasted well into early 2023.

Join with us in solidarity and to hear about this history, and the powerful current voices from Iranian prisoners, filled with pain and anger, but also rebellion, creativity and hope for humanity.

Co-sponsored by Revolution Books and the
International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now

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"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