#Iran #StopExecutionsInIran #NoDeathPenalty #FreePoliticalPrisoners Week 135: Prisoners in 61 Iranian prisons continue their hunger strike against the regime’s execution machine. In its 135th consecutive week, the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has expanded further as prisoners in Noor Prison (Mazandaran Province) joined the movement. On Tuesday, August 25, 2026 (3 Shahrivar 1405), inmates across 61 prisons nationwide staged a coordinated hunger strike to protest the ongoing issuance and implementation of death sentences. This campaign, now entering its third year, has grown from a limited protest into one of the most sustained and widespread organized acts of resistance inside Iran’s prisons against the death penalty. Despite intensifying security pressure, threats, communication restrictions, and punitive measures, the weekly hunger strikes continue unbroken, underscoring the prisoners’ unwavering demand for an end to executions and the defense of the right to life. Surge in Executions and Alarming Judicial Changes The campaign warns of a sharp rise in executions alongside heightened repression. At least 378 people have been executed since the beginning of the Iranian year 1405, while the total number of executions since the Pezeshkian government took office has surpassed 4,000. Recent changes in the judiciary, carried out under the direct influence of security agencies and the “Velayat-e Faqih” apparatus, pose a grave new threat to death-row prisoners. With no independent oversight and prisoners routinely denied the right to choose their own lawyers, the risk of arbitrary executions has increased significantly. In the past week alone, two political prisoners from the December 2017–January 2018 protests were hanged: Ghaem Hosseini in Isfahan Prison and Majid Adineh in Karaj Central Prison. Death sentences have also been upheld or issued for several other political prisoners, including Arghavan Fallahi (Evin Prison women’s ward), Rasoul Rezaei (Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad), and Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl, who was abruptly transferred from Greater Tehran Prison to Qezelhesar — a notorious execution center that has heightened fears for his life.

شهرک اندیشه تهران در سوگ ۱۷ سالگی نشست. محمدمتین حسینی دانش‌آموز ۱۷ ساله کلاس یازدهم، ساکن شهرک اندیشه در جنوب غربی تهران، که صبح‌ها درس می‌خواند و عصرها برقکاری می‌کرد تا آینده‌ای بهتر بسازد، جمعه ۱۹ دی ۱۴۰۴ در جریان اعتراضات اندیشه با شلیک مستقیم گلوله به سر مجروح شد. به گفته نزدیکانش، بعد از باشگاه همراه دوستانش به اعتراضات پیوسته بود، نیروهای سرکوب دنبالشان کردند، به کوچه‌ای پناه برد و پشت خودرویی مخفی شد، لحظه‌ای که سرش را بالا آورد گلوله به سرش اصابت کرد. زنی که به مجروحان کمک می‌کرد او را به خانه‌اش برد و با خانواده تماس گرفت. ۱۰ روز در کما جنگید و در سکوتی سنگین پر کشید. پدرش می‌گوید: خدای متین می‌داند این بچه چقدر بی‌گناه و پاک و مظلوم بود. #تهران #شهرک_اندیشه #اندیشه_تهران #شهریار #محمدمتین_حسینی Tehran's Andisheh Township mourns 17-year-old. Mohammad Matin Hosseini, a 17-year-old 11th grade student living in Andisheh Township in southwest Tehran, who studied in the mornings and worked as an electrician in the evenings to build a better future, was wounded by a direct bullet to the head during the Andisheh protests on Friday, January 19, 1404. According to his relatives, he had joined the protests with his friends after the gym, when the repression forces followed them, took refuge in an alley and hid behind a car. The moment he raised his head, a bullet hit him in the head. A woman who was helping the wounded took him home and called his family. He fought in a coma for 10 days and drew his feathers in a heavy silence. His father says: "God knows how innocent, pure and oppressed this child was." #Tehran #Andisheh_Town #Andisheh_Tehran #Shahryar #Mohammad_Matin_Hosseini

Hengaw – Monday, August 24, 2026 Twelve Baha’is have been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Sari Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Ammar Ramezani, to a combined 26 years and 165 days in prison and 76 years of deprivation of social rights. According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the verdict, issued on August 20, 2026, sentenced Raquel Ataian to four years in prison and 10 years of deprivation of social rights. Keyumars Akbari, Sohrab Laghaei, Zahra Golabian, Banafsheh Asadian Arabi, Fouad Laghaei, Anahita Koushbaghi, Nasim Samimi, Hossein Fanaian, Emilia Fanaian, Melody Samimi, and Soheil Haghdoost were each sentenced to two years and 15 days in prison and six years of deprivation of social rights. The Revolutionary Court convicted all 12 on the charge of “engaging in educational and promotional activities contrary and detrimental to the sacred laws of Islam, with the aim of promoting and encouraging the Baha’i faith.”

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Sgt. Ivy Nicole Unruh — her final act saved six lives. Ivy Nicole Unruh was born on December 6, 2000, in Tucson, Arizona, to Amie Unruh and Matthew Jellison. She would eventually build two very different careers around the same technical abilities, first as a United States Marine, and later as a broadcast engineer in Wichita, Kansas. Some published obituary material spells her middle name “Nichole,” while another family notice uses “Nicole,” so that spelling varies in the public record. Military service appealed strongly to Ivy. Her father later recalled that when people warned her the Marine Corps was the toughest service, that was exactly the challenge she wanted. She went on to complete four honorable years in the Marine Corps, ultimately attaining the rank of sergeant. Her specialty was highly technical. Ivy served as a satellite communications technician, developing experience with radio-frequency systems, satellite equipment, troubleshooting, configuration, and communications technology. Her own professional profile later described experience setting up, monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting satellite-communications equipment. Her final Marine Corps assignment was at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. Reporting based on her family and service history states that she earned multiple military awards, including recognition for good conduct, before completing active service in late 2024 and transitioning into the reserve component. After leaving full-time Marine service, Ivy carried those communications skills into civilian life. She moved into broadcast engineering and joined PBS Kansas/KPTS in Wichita, where she worked for approximately a year and a half. PBS Kansas President Victor Hogstrom said her background in radio frequency and satellite communications made her particularly well suited for the station’s engineering department. Her colleagues remembered more than her technical ability. PBS Kansas described Ivy as a talented, kind and dedicated colleague and friend, while Hogstrom recalled someone willing to work with others and take on whatever needed to be done. The station continues to list her on its staff page with a memorial message.