Prisoners Participating in the 'Tuesdays No to Execution' Campaign: We Must Resist Religious Tyranny

Simultaneously with the thirty-second week of the 'Tuesdays No to Execution' campaign aimed at 'abolishing execution and torture in Iran', the number of prisons participating in this campaign has increased to 21. Political prisoners participating in this campaign announced on Tuesday, September 4, that prisoners held in the Isfahan prison of Asadabad and the Bam prison in Kerman province have joined the 'Tuesdays No to Execution' campaign. According to the Dadban Legal Consultation Center, activists in this campaign emphasized resistance against the 'religious tyranny' of the Islamic Republic in their statement, referring to the regime's reliance on 'repression, imprisonment, and execution' of protesters in Iran. Part of the statement reads: 'Recent developments indicate that the Iranian society and its citizens have come to a clear understanding that they must resist this religious tyranny, a resistance that has been manifested among the prisoners, who are now on hunger strike for the thirty-second consecutive week in the “Tuesdays No to Execution” campaign despite all pressures.' Participants in the anti-execution campaign, consisting of prisoners in 21 prisons of the Islamic Republic, have called on all prisoners in various prisons and 'all awakened consciences' around the world to support this campaign for 'the abolition of execution and opposition to it.' The 'Tuesdays No to Execution' campaign, which began last February at the initiative of several political prisoners from Qezel Hessar prison, has been welcomed by civil and political activists in other prisons. Recently, a group of United Nations experts expressed concern over the increase in the number of executions carried out last month, calling on the Iranian government to immediately halt the death penalty. The UN experts reported that the number of 93 executions last month was more than double the number of executions compared to the previous month. According to Amnesty International, the Islamic Republic was responsible for 74% of the recorded executions worldwide last year. The executed individuals included ethnic minorities, especially Baluchis, women, and those who were minors at the time of the crime. The Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic confirmed the 'qisas nafs' sentence for a Basij member in the case of the murder of Mohammad Jameh Bozorg. UN experts warned about the 'sharp increase in executions' in Iran: these punishments are 'illegal.' Narges Mohammadi's reaction to the killing of Mohammad Mir Mousavi: the Islamic Republic is 'a regime filled with hatred, oppression, and discrimination.' A letter from three political prisoners in Qezel Hessar Karaj: the denial of medical treatment for Afshin Bayamani and Saman Yasin is 'systematic murder.'