The No to Execution Tuesdays campaign has entered its 146th consecutive week. On Tuesday, 10 November 2026, prisoners in 66 prisons across Iran launched a hunger strike. Through this protest, they are opposing the growing use of the death penalty and the continued repression of political prisoners. Meanwhile, a new wave of executions and reports of deaths under torture has raised serious concerns about human rights in Iran. Over the past week, several prisoners have been executed. Among them were political prisoners and individuals arrested during the January uprising. On Tuesday, 3 November, Iranian authorities executed two prisoners arrested during the January uprising: Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi. Both executions took place in Isfahan. Later, on Saturday, authorities executed Baluch prisoner Mohammad-Aref Shahbakhsh. On Sunday, three more prisoners were executed in Karaj: Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi, and Reza Zanganeh. The executions of Hassan Divband and Hamid Kazemi are particularly alarming. They took place just days after reports revealed their death sentences. Those reports also described torture and mock executions. Their rapid execution has raised further concerns about the treatment of prisoners facing the death penalty. Prisoner Reportedly Dies Under Torture in Ahvaz In another disturbing case, Hedayat Lalarizadeh reportedly died...

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UN Working Group Vice-Chair Ana Lorena Delgadillo joined Iran’s 145th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoners across 66 prisons, continuing the wave of support from UN experts that Maryam Rajavi highlighted the previous week. Ana Lorena Delgadillo Joins the Campaign Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, joined the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign with a solidarity action on Tuesday, 3 November 2026 — the 145th consecutive week of the prisoners’ weekly protest. The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances announced: “Today Ana Lorena Delgadillo @analorenadp is joining the #NoToExecutionTuesday campaign. All executions and enforced disappearances must stop. We stand with all of those sentenced to death. A moratorium is urgently needed as a step toward abolition.” Delgadillo herself amplified the call with the hashtags #StopExecutions #StopEnforcedDisappearances #Iran. The campaign, which began in early 2024 in Ghezel Hesar Prison, has grown into a nationwide act of resistance spanning 66 prisons. Prisoners choose Tuesdays because it is the day death-row inmates are typically transferred to solitary confinement ahead of execution. Despite intensifying repression and a sharp rise in executions, the hunger strikes continue. Since March...

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UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mai Sato, has highlighted that opposition to executions is also growing inside Iranian prisons, where prisoners have staged hunger strikes every Tuesday for more than two years and eight months. Speaking at the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Sato said the weekly action reflects prisoners’ resistance to “all executions” in Iran. The campaign is known on social media as “No to Execution Tuesdays”. Her report, covering February to August 2026, describes a pattern of repression following nationwide protests in January 2026, including mass arrests, enforced disappearances, pressure on families, and severe restrictions on communications. According to the report, at least 34 people were executed in connection with the January protests, including at least five publicly. More than 100 people, among them women and children, reportedly remain at risk of execution. Sato also warned that Iran’s near five-month nationwide internet blackout has made it harder for victims, witnesses, journalists, and rights groups to document abuses and share information with international bodies. Dr. Mai Sato said: “The war has provided cover for the authorities to intensify their crackdown and tighten the repression. Safety from external attack and protection from human rights...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mai Sato, has highlighted that opposition to executions is also growing inside Iranian prisons, where prisoners have staged hunger strikes every Tuesday for more than two years and eight months. Speaking at the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Sato said the weekly action reflects prisoners’ resistance to “all executions” in Iran. The campaign is known on social media as “No to Execution Tuesdays”. Her report, covering February to August 2026, describes a pattern of repression following nationwide protests in January 2026, including mass arrests, enforced disappearances, pressure on families, and severe restrictions on communications. According to the report, at least 34 people were executed in connection with the January protests, including at least five publicly. More than 100 people, among them women and children, reportedly remain at risk of execution. Sato also warned that Iran’s near five-month nationwide internet blackout has made it harder for victims, witnesses, journalists, and rights groups to document abuses and share information with international bodies. Dr. Mai Sato said: “The war has provided cover for the authorities to intensify their crackdown and tighten the repression. Safety from external attack and protection from human rights...

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UN Special Rapporteur Andrea Bolaños Vargas and former UN expert David R. Boyd join Iran’s 144th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strike; Maryam Rajavi, Canadian officials, and global supporters stand with political prisoners across 66 prisons. UN Special Rapporteur Andrea Bolaños Vargas Joins the Campaign Andrea Bolaños Vargas, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, joined the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign with a solidarity hunger strike on Tuesday, 27 October 2026 — the 144th consecutive week of the prisoners’ weekly protest. She stated: “I join #NoToExecutionTuesdays in the solidarity hunger strike for the human rights defenders that are being jailed and threatened with death for their work. At least 46 political prisoners and protesters have been executed in Iran since March 2026. More than 100 others remain on death row. The executions should end and those detained released.” The campaign, which began in early 2024 in Ghezel Hesar Prison, has grown into a nationwide act of resistance spanning 66 prisons. Prisoners choose Tuesdays because it is the day death-row inmates are typically transferred to solitary confinement ahead of execution. Despite intensifying repression and a sharp rise in executions, the hunger strikes...

UN Special Rapporteur Andrea Bolaños Vargas and former UN expert David R. Boyd join Iran’s 144th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strike; Maryam Rajavi, Canadian officials, and global supporters stand with political prisoners across 66 prisons. UN Special Rapporteur Andrea Bolaños Vargas Joins the Campaign Andrea Bolaños Vargas, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, joined the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign with a solidarity hunger strike on Tuesday, 27 October 2026 — the 144th consecutive week of the prisoners’ weekly protest. She stated: “I join #NoToExecutionTuesdays in the solidarity hunger strike for the human rights defenders that are being jailed and threatened with death for their work. At least 46 political prisoners and protesters have been executed in Iran since March 2026. More than 100 others remain on death row. The executions should end and those detained released.” The campaign, which began in early 2024 in Ghezel Hesar Prison, has grown into a nationwide act of resistance spanning 66 prisons. Prisoners choose Tuesdays because it is the day death-row inmates are typically transferred to solitary confinement ahead of execution. Despite intensifying repression and a sharp rise in executions, the hunger strikes...

via US news | The Guardian — Death inside Folkston facility comes as officials allegedly threaten hunger strikers there with force-feeding An immigrant detained at a sprawling detention center complex in Georgia died on Friday, local and federal officials confirmed, after the facility has already faced national scrutiny for its response to an ongoing hunger strike inside. The death inside the D Ray James facility in Folkston, Georgia, comes as federal immigration officials and private contractors are allegedly threatening h

The European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno ended her hunger strike, meant to raise awareness for the humanitarian crisis in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, following the announcement of a ceasefire agreement, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Oct. 24. Lubinets said he informed Picierno that a temporary local ceasefire in Oleshky had been agreed to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and the evacuation of the civilian population starting on Oct. 27. The agreement includes demining the road to the town, deliveries of food, water, medicine, and medical equipment, and the safe passage of civilians, he added. Some 2,000 civilians remain trapped in Oleshky, located just across the Dnipro River from Kherson, with Russian troops blocking humanitarian aid from entering, despite a critical shortage of food and medicine. Civilians attempting to flee via the mined roads in and out of the city are frequently targeted by drones. Picierno announced the hunger strike on Oct. 20, demanding an immediate humanitarian truce in the occupied town. "It is time to act together, so that diplomacy delivers concrete results and no one is left to die in silence," she said. Her announcement came days after Pope Leo XIV called for...

Berlin, Germany — October 20, 2026: On the 235th consecutive day of their protest sit-in outside the Iranian regime’s embassy in Berlin, supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) condemned the regime’s escalating executions and demanded an immediate end to the death penalty. The demonstrators particularly denounced the execution of political prisoners and the wave of death sentences imposed on protesters arrested during uprisings across Iran. Support for UN Rapporteur The participants also expressed strong appreciation and support for Leopoldo Maldonado Gutiérrez, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, who joined the political prisoners’ hunger strike on Tuesday, October 20. His action coincided with the 143rd week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign, in which prisoners in 66 prisons across Iran are protesting executions and defending the right to life. Maldonado announced a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners and called for an immediate halt to executions, the commutation of death sentences, and a review of cases that failed to meet fair-trial standards. Calls for Embassy Closure and Accountability The protesters called for the closure of the Iranian regime’s embassy in Berlin as a center of espionage and terrorism operating on...

European Parliament vice-president on hunger strike over trapped civilians in Oleshky Picierno explained that she had decided to go on hunger strike to draw international attention to the emergency in...