Hunger Strike Campaign Against Executions Enters 113th Week Across 56 Iranian Prisons
The front gate of the Firouz Abad Prison, southcentral Iran
Written by
Safora Sadidi Mohammadi
The campaign “No to Execution Tuesdays” announced on Tuesday that prisoners in 56 prisons across Iran are observing a hunger strike for the 113th consecutive week, continuing their protest against executions despite war conditions, bombardment, internet blackouts, and mounting repression.
In its latest statement, the campaign said the protest has not stopped even under extraordinary pressure and insecurity. The movement said its aim remains to draw urgent attention to the accelerating use of the death penalty and to the condition of prisoners who are at imminent risk of execution.
The statement came as the campaign condemned a new wave of executions, including the killing of three detainees arrested during the nationwide protests of January 2026.
“The executioner regime, in the past year, has hanged more than 2,650 of our compatriots across the country,” the statement said. It added that “on the night of Nowruz, three brave young men — Mehdi Ghasemi, Saeed Davoudi, and Saleh Mohammadi — who had been arrested in the Dey protests, were cruelly executed in Qom,” while another prisoner, Kourosh Keyvani, was hanged in Karaj Central Prison on charges of espionage.
After 3 weeks of blackout in Iran, prisoners’ voices emerged
In 56 prisons across Iran, political prisoners continue their hunger strike in Week 113 of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign—warning of executions, torture, and deadly conditions. Prisoners face a double threat:…
— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) March 24, 2026
The campaign said the hunger strike is continuing while many detainees, especially those arrested in recent months, are being held in uncertain conditions and cut off from the outside world. According to the statement, many are being held “in media silence and internet blackout,” while facing torture and the danger of death sentences.
“We, the members of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign, while condemning the arbitrary and criminal executions carried out to create fear and terror in society, call on the United Nations, various countries, and human-rights organizations to pressure the Iranian regime so that at least the minimum rights of prisoners are observed,” the statement said.
The appeal was especially directed at the plight of prisoners detained in recent months. The campaign warned that these detainees are under severe pressure and said many remain at risk of execution. It also renewed its demand for the release of political prisoners.
Increase in Pressures in Karaj Central Prison Amid War Conditions #IranHumanRights;@UN_SPExperts;@drmaisato;@profbensaul;@volker_turk;@UNHumanRights ;@AmnestyIran;https://t.co/lkdGmBfK55 pic.twitter.com/M3H7hNPw6v
— Iran Human Rights Society (@iranhrs_en) March 22, 2026
The statement stressed that the danger to inmates has intensified under wartime conditions. It said many prisoners are suffering from shortages of food and medical care and that “in the conditions of bombardment, the lives of prisoners are exposed to double danger.” It also reported that, during the past week, dozens of prisoners in Chabahar were killed or wounded after protesting the failure to provide food.
The campaign noted that its statements for weeks 111 and 112 were not published because communications had been cut.
At the close of the statement, the campaign extended greetings for Nowruz and Eid al-Fitr to the people of Iran, especially the families of those killed in the January 2026 uprising and those executed over the past year. It thanked teachers, retirees, workers, families of death-row prisoners, independent media, and all those who have amplified the voices of prisoners facing execution. It also expressed hope that the new year would become “the year of Iran’s freedom, an Iran without torture and executions.”
Reports confirm security forces opened fire on unarmed prisoners in Chabahar after days without food—killing several and wounding dozens amid a nationwide blackout.https://t.co/kk03MmGBq9
— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) March 23, 2026
This week’s hunger strike is taking place in 56 prisons, including Evin, Ghezel Hesar, Greater Tehran, Qarchak, Karaj Central Prison, Adelabad in Shiraz, Sheyban and Sepidar in Ahvaz, Zahedan, Mashhad, Tabriz, Urmia, Sanandaj, Kamyaran, and Ilam.
The continuation of the campaign into its 113th week underscores both the scale of opposition to executions inside Iran’s prison system and the determination of prisoners to keep resisting, even under the harshest conditions.