Iran’s regime has ramped up executions in since the introduction of his new president’s cabinet. The regime’s goal is to create an atmosphere of fear and terror and prevent popular uprisings at a very sensitive time and tensions in society.
On August 13, 2024, regime authorities hanged a prisoner in Kerman and two prisoners in Rafsanjan. On August 12 and August 10, the regime executed seven prisoners. This is in addition to the dozens of other executions that were reported in the past week, bringing the total executions from August 6 to 13, 2024, to at least 51.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, stated that the regime is trying to prevent its “inevitable downfall and deadly impasses. However, on the contrary, these reckless bloodsheds only intensify the anger of the people and the youth of the country to overthrow this regime.”
By intensifying the #execution of prisoners, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the clerical regime, is attempting to avert the regime’s inevitable downfall and deadly impasses. However, these indiscriminate bloodsheds only incite greater anger among the people and the youth of… pic.twitter.com/LrXbxJNSC3
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) August 13, 2024
On the other hand, today, Tuesday, August 13, 2024, prisoners in 18 prisons across the country held the 29th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign” with their hunger strike.
In an open letter, the political prisoners stressed that their campaign “began in protest against the wave of executions of ordinary prisoners and later the execution of young Kurdish and Sunni compatriots, which continued with the political executions of the Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi, not a week has passed in these 29 weeks without witnessing the government’s use of this medieval punishment in prisons.”
The striking prisoners also pointed out that during the sham election season to replace the deceased former president Ebrahim Raisi, the regime “reduced executions as much as possible. We, the prisoners of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign,’ warned that this reduction was temporary and would be followed by a widespread wave of executions.”
The prisoners warned that the regime has now returned to its mass executions, with 29 executions in a single day, including an en-masse execution in Ghezel Hesar Prison.
“This shameful record of ‘state murder’ and executions, the highest in recent years, has continued with the issuance of death sentences,” the prisoners wrote.
In recent weeks, dozens of political prisoners have been sentenced to death in vague trials on charges fabricated by the regime, such as “rebellion and corruption on earth.” The latest cases include the death sentences handed down to six Sunni political and ideological prisoners by the Revolutionary Court in Mashhad, whose lives are now in grave danger.
“All of this occurred after the inauguration of Masoud Pezeshkian, where it was stated that ‘Iran is the safest country in the Middle East.’ In the government of executions, ‘security’ is defined in this way,” the prisoners wrote.
In their letter, the prisoners once again condemned the wave of repression and killings, including the execution of political prisoner Reza Rasaei and the crackdown on prisoners in Lakan prison and the women’s ward in Evin Prison.
However, the prisoners stressed that “this repression will certainly not prevent the continuation of these protests, nor will it intimidate us.”
The prisoners called on “all awakened consciences inside and outside the country to rise against executions with all their strength before the repressive apparatus of the ruling religious dictatorship in Iran once again hangs hundreds and thousands of general and political prisoners.”
In its 29th week, the “No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign” has expanded to18 prisons, including Evin Prison (Tehran), Ghezel Hesar Prison (Karaj), Karaj Central Prison, Khorramabad Prison, Shiraz Military Prison, Khoy Prison, Naqadeh Prison, Tabriz Prison, Urmia Prison, Ardabil Prison, Salmas Prison, Saqqez Prison, Baneh Prison, Marivan Prison, Kamyaran Prison, Lakan Prison (Rasht), Qaemshahr Prison, and Mashhad Prison.