Prisoners in 66 prisons across Iran refused food on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, as the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign entered its 146th consecutive week, according to reports from the campaign.

The weekly hunger strike, held every Tuesday, is a protest against the use of the death penalty in Iran. Campaign reports say the latest action comes amid a sharp rise in executions and new reports of prisoners dying in custody.

Executions reported in the past week

According to figures cited by the campaign, more than 40 people have been executed during the Iranian month of Aban, which began on 23 October. At least 15 people have been executed since Tuesday, 3 November, six of them political prisoners, the reports say.

On 3 November, two prisoners arrested during the January uprising, Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi, were executed in Isfahan, the campaign said. A Baluch prisoner, Mohammad-Aref Shahbakhsh, was executed on Saturday, and three more prisoners — Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh — were executed in Karaj on Sunday.

The campaign also reported that a prisoner, Hedayat Lalarizadeh, died under torture at a security detention centre in Ahvaz. The Daily Byte has not independently verified the individual cases.

International concern over executions

The campaign pointed to a recent report by the UN Secretary-General to the UN General Assembly, which it said documented a significant increase in executions in Iran and a serious deterioration in prison conditions.

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Mai Sato, told the General Assembly’s Third Committee on 28 October that prisoners had staged Tuesday hunger strikes against executions for more than two years and eight months. Her report, covering February to August 2026, said at least 34 people had been executed in connection with the January protests, including at least five in public, and that more than 100 people remained at risk of execution.

The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign began in early 2024 at Ghezel Hesar Prison and has since spread to prisons across the country. Two UN rapporteurs, Andrea Bolaños Vargas and Ana Lorena Delgadillo, have expressed solidarity with the campaign, according to campaign reports.

The campaign says its demand is an end to executions in Iran, and it has called on the international community to press Tehran over the reported rise in death sentences and to speak out for prisoners facing execution. The weekly action has now run for almost three years, making it one of the longest-running prisoner protests inside Iran.