24-Hour Livestream in Support of “No Death Penalty Tuesdays” in Iran

Please join us for this special livestream:

Some of the many participants include: Shirin Ebadi, Narges Mohammadi, Javaid Rehman, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Sholeh Pakravan, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mehrangiz Kar, Kowsar Eftekhari, Mina Ahadi, Hossein Nayed Hashem, Regina Paulose, Ammar Maleki and organisations like:

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM)

Advocates for Human Rights

Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Global Network to Free Political Prisoners in Iran

UTEEIRAN with guests from European parliaments

Justice for Iran

6Rang

World Day Against the Death Penalty 

Observed every 10 October, the World Day Against the Death Penalty unifies the global abolitionist movement and mobilises civil society, political leaders and public opinion to support the call for universal abolition of capital punishment. On 10 October 2024 and 2025, the World Day is dedicated to challenging the misconception that the death penalty can make people and communities safer.

No Death Penalty Tuesdays

After bearing witness to months of weekly group executions in Karaj and the execution of several political prisoners in January 2024, a group of brave political prisoners in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj staged a protest which was violently suppressed. The diverse group of political prisoners from different backgrounds and beliefs thus began a weekly hunger strike on 30th January that became known as “Black Tuesdays” and “No Death Penalty Tuesdays.” They chose Tuesdays for that is the day death row inmates are typically transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for the gallows in Ghezelhesar Prison.

The weekly mass hunger strikes had spread to 21 prisons across Iran in their 34th week on 27 September 2024. The participants remain resolute in their demands against the death penalty despite violent crackdowns.

On 27 August, 68 human rights organisations signed a joint statement in solidarity and support of the “No Death Penalty Tuesdays” abolitionist movement in Iran.