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Iran’s ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ Marks 89th Week as Regime Expands Executions

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Written byMahmoud Hakamian

7th October 2025

As the world prepares to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Iranian prisoners have announced the continuation of the 89th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, now joined by prisoners across 52 prisons nationwide.

In a powerful statement released on October 7, 2025, the campaign declared: “We begin the 89th week of our campaign on the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, at a time when the international community strives to abolish or at least significantly reduce executions. Yet in Iran, not only has the death penalty not been reduced, but the ruling regime breaks new records in cruelty and executions every day.”

The statement reported that on Saturday, October 4, six Arab political prisoners — Ali Mojadam, Mohammadreza Moghadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Ghobeishavi, and Seyed Salem Mousavi — along with Kurdish political prisoner Saman Mohammadi-Khiareh, were executed. On the same day, the death sentence of political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani was confirmed for the third time by Iran’s Supreme Court.

According to the campaign, 1,695 executions have been recorded in Iran since October 2024, including 957 in just the first six and a half months of 2025.


“We must acknowledge that many executions go unreported, and the real figures are likely much higher,” the statement said. “This is only a fraction of the regime’s execution crimes.”

The activists cited a recent Amnesty International report noting that as of December 2024, 113 countries have completely abolished the death penalty, and 145 countries have either legally or practically halted executions.

“But in Iran,” the statement continued, “the shadow of death grows darker every day.”

The campaign underscored that the death penalty in Iran serves as a political weapon rather than a judicial measure:

“Everyone knows that executions in Iran are not justice but tools of intimidation and terror in a society on the verge of explosion. For this regime, every protest and protester must be silenced through execution or imprisonment.”


The statement also linked the campaign’s message to other social movements in Iran, noting that “‘No to Execution’ has become a unifying slogan of teachers, retirees, workers, and students across the country.”

Marking World Teachers’ Day, the campaign honored the memory of Samed Behrangi and Farzad Kamangar, two teachers remembered for their struggle for equality and freedom:

“They taught lessons of liberty and equality and ultimately gave their lives for them.”

In conclusion, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign renewed its call to the Iranian people and the international community: “The death penalty brings neither justice nor deterrence — it only institutionalizes violence. We call on all conscientious people — civil activists, writers, artists, teachers, retirees, and workers — to raise their voices louder against executions so that the main instrument of repression and suffocation is taken from this executioner regime. Only then can the path toward justice and freedom be opened.”

The 89th week of the campaign involves prisoners in 52 prisons, including Evin, Ghezel Hesar, Qarchak, Adelabad (Shiraz), Karaj, Sepidar (Ahvaz), Zanjan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Sanandaj, and Zahedan, among others.

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