{"id":3234,"date":"2026-09-30T07:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpiran.net\/english\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:04:11","slug":"the-bloody-record-of-political-executions-and-our-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpiran.net\/english\/the-bloody-record-of-political-executions-and-our-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloody Record of Political Executions and Our Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At least 79 people have been executed in Iran during the month of September this year alone, including six women and ten Baluch citizens. These figures were released by the \u201cTuesdays Against Executions\u201d campaign in its 140th weekly statement. However, these numbers must be viewed alongside the figures from previous months to gain a more complete picture of what is unfolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics from human rights organizations reveal a worrying trend. In April, at least 26 prisoners were executed, 14 of whom were political prisoners; in other words, political cases accounted for more than half of all executions that month. In May, the number of executions reached at least 80, including 17 political prisoners. In June, at least 109 people were executed, and in July, 67 prisoners, including nine political prisoners, were hanged. In August, at least 89 people were executed, including six political and ideological prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran Human Rights has also reported that at least 532 executions were recorded during the first eight months of 2026. These figures represent minimum estimates, as the government carries out a large proportion of executions quietly and without public notification. For example, of the 109 executions in June, only seven were officially announced, and in 12 cases, prisoners were executed without prior notification to their families and without a final visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An important aspect of these statistics is the growing share of political executions. In just five months, from March 18 to the end of August, regime officials announced the execution of 29 people in connection with recent protests. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also announced that, since March 19, at least 56 people had been executed on security-related charges, 27 of these cases relating to the protests of January 2026. He warned that the death penalty is being used to intimidate the public and suppress dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The danger remains high. According to the campaign, nearly 200 political and ideological prisoners are under death sentences, many of them among those arrested during the January 2026 uprising. The latest example is the death sentence handed down to Mahboubeh Shabani in Mashhad Prison. In the case concerning Isfahan’s Shohada Square, the Revolutionary Court sentenced ten defendants “one woman and nine men” to death. According to Iran Human Rights, more than 70 protesters are at risk of execution in Isfahan Prison alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every death sentence sends a message to society as a whole: the price of protest is one’s life. The disproportionate representation of national minorities, particularly Baluch and Kurdish people, in these statistics also demonstrates that the struggle against executions cannot be separated from the struggle against discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the face of this death machine, a voice has risen from within the prisons. With the participation of prisoners from Darehshahr in Ilam and Meshginshahr in Ardabil, the \u201cTuesdays Against Executions\u201d campaign has now spread to 66 prisons, where groups of prisoners go on hunger strike every Tuesday. The continuation of this movement for nearly three years has made it one of the most enduring forms of civil resistance in Iran today. However, if this resistance finds no echo beyond prison walls, it risks becoming isolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience has shown that social pressure can delay the implementation of death sentences and sometimes save the lives of those condemned. Silence leaves the government free to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first duty is to name those affected. The government prefers executions to take place anonymously. Publishing names, telling the stories of people’s lives, and following up on their cases breaks this anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second duty is solidarity with families, who are often placed under pressure to remain silent. Standing alongside them raises the cost of repression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third duty is to connect struggles. When labor organizations, teachers, students, women, and activists from oppressed national communities include opposition to executions in their demands, the issue becomes a public demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth duty, particularly for activists abroad, is international pressure: submitting documented reports to human rights organizations, pursuing cases through parliaments and the media, and resisting the normalization of relations with a government that carries out executions every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, documentation. Every sentence and every execution must be recorded; these documents are tools for exposing abuses today and will form the foundation of the struggle for justice tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prisoners who endure hunger every Tuesday are asking more of us than sympathy. Executions will only stop when their political cost to the government exceeds the benefits it derives from intimidation, and only an awakened and united society can impose that cost. \u201cNo to Executions\u201d must extend beyond prison walls and become the voice of us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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