Execution of at least 6 prisoners coincides with hunger strike of prisoners in the 'No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign in Shiraz and Golestan

Simultaneously with the thirty-fourth round of the hunger strike by members of the 'No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign, human rights sources reported on Tuesday, September 18, that the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic executed at least six prisoners in Shiraz and Golestan. The thirty-fourth week of the 'No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign was observed in at least 21 prisons in Iran, where prisoners protested against the issuance and implementation of death sentences by going on hunger strike. Members of this campaign issued a statement commemorating all the victims of the protests of 2021, in memory of dozens of protesting citizens who went on hunger strike and were executed by the repressive apparatus of the Velayat-e Faqih government, with the aim of intimidating the desperate people, in violation of all human rights standards. Political prisoners participating in the weekly hunger strike against executions also warned that 'a number of detainees from the nationwide protests of 2021 are at risk of execution' and called for more attention from political and human rights activists, as well as the media and the general public in Iran. The judiciary of the Islamic Republic has so far executed Mohsen Shakari, Majidreza Rahnavard, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, Mohammad Hosseini, Saleh Mirhashimi, Saeed Yaqoubi, Majid Kazemi, Milad Zohrevand, Mohammad Qobadlu, and Reza Rasayi, all of whom were detainees from the nationwide protests of 2021, and members of the 'No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign have warned that several other protesters are still at risk of execution. Concurrently with the hunger strike of prisoners in 21 prisons in Iran against the issuance and implementation of death sentences, the judicial authorities executed several prisoners in Shiraz and Golestan. According to a report by the Iran Human Rights Organization, five prisoners related to charges of 'drug offenses or murder' were executed by the judicial authorities in Shiraz Central Prison. The report identified these prisoners as 'Sasan Bozorgzadeh, Saeed Khajeh Heydari, Abdoljalil Ehsani, Yahya Zargari, and Mehdi Jahampour,' stating that they were executed on Sunday, September 24. Additionally, a human rights activist group in Iran reported that a prisoner named Ali Morad Hassan Zadeh was also executed on Tuesday, September 26, in Golestan for 'drug trafficking.' Statistics indicate that the number of executions in Iran has increased unprecedentedly following the appointment of Masoud Pezeshkian as the successor to Ebrahim Raisi; human rights organizations have called for decisive action from the international community in this regard. Political prisoners have been on hunger strike for thirty-four weeks in several prisons in Iran on Tuesdays to protest against the issuance and implementation of death sentences, aiming to draw the attention of human rights organizations and the media to the alarming situation of executions by the Islamic Republic. The European Union, on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death, called for accountability from those responsible for violence and human rights violations in Iran. Special Rapporteur of the United Nations noted on the second anniversary of Mahsa that we are witnessing the relentless resistance of women and girls in Iran. Prince Reza Pahlavi, on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death, called for unity among Iranians against the Islamic Republic. A review of the nationwide protests of 2021; the killing of Mahsa Amini in custody and the events that followed.