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Inmates detained wrong 1 of Iran’s largest prisons person for the past 2 days staged a sit-in protestation and a hunger onslaught against the increasing fig of executions successful the Islamic republic, rights groups said connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025).
The protestation astatine Ghezel Hesar situation successful the metropolis of Karaj extracurricular Tehran was triggered by the transportation of up to 16 inmates to solitary confinement up of execution, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said successful abstracted statements.
Prisoners successful portion 2 of the situation have, since Monday (October 13), refused nutrient rations and staged a sit-in extracurricular their cells successful the situation corridors, and were besides joined by inmates successful different wings, the groups said.
Video, which IHR said was filmed from wrong the prison, showed prisoners sitting down and chanting slogans including “no to execution”.
The protestation has lasted 2 days but the concern aboriginal connected Wednesday (October 15) was not instantly clear.
Families of the prisoners besides staged a protestation extracurricular the situation gates calling for a halt to the decease sentences, different video showed.
According to IHR, which monitors the fig of executions daily, Iran has hanged 1,128 radical this year, the highest fig since the radical started taking records successful 2008.
Iran is the world’s 2nd astir prolific executioner aft China, which is believed to execute thousands each twelvemonth though nary precise figures are available, rights groups say.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the governmental helping of the People’s Mujahedin (MEK) which is outlawed by Iran, said that 1,500 prisoners were progressive successful the action. It was not instantly imaginable to verify the figure.
It said situation authorities had met with prisoners’ representatives to inquire them to telephone disconnected the hunger strike, but they had insisted the enactment would spell connected until their demands were met.
‘Nightmare of the gallows’
IHR said that 2 of the prisoners transferred to solitary confinement had been returned to the wide ward, but the others remained nether imminent menace of execution.
“Our patience has tally retired from each this oppression and the taking of prisoners’ and youths’ lives. Every time and each week, we witnesser immoderate of our chap inmates being sent to the gallows, and galore of america walk the nighttime haunted by the nightmare of decease and the gallows,” said a connection successful the sanction of the prisoners circulating connected societal media, which could not beryllium instantly verified.
Within Iran, the Fars quality agency said “counter-revolutionary” media had broadcast video of a situation protestation against the execution of inmates who were “extremely convulsive equipped robbers”.
The judiciary’s Mizan quality agency said these inmates had already been executed “after the completion of ineligible procedures” and the video was portion of a run to “defame Iran’s prisons and dispersed mendacious claims.”
Ghezel Hesar is notorious for the ample numbers of hangings wrong the prison.
Inmates hanged wrong the situation precocious successful precocious illustration cases see Babak Shahbazi, who was executed connected charges of spying for Israel successful the aftermath of the June warfare with Israel, and Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassan, who were enactment to decease successful July connected charges of belonging to the MEK.
