Iran inmates sew lips shut in mass hunger strike at notorious US-sanctioned jail: report

More than 1,000 inmates death-row inmates held successful a portion of Iran’s Ghezel Hesar Prison person entered a 3rd week of a wide hunger onslaught to protestation authorities executions, with immoderate prisoners sewing their lips unopen successful protest, according to reports.

The escalating objection astatine the U.S.-sanctioned Ghezel Hesar Prison successful Karaj adjacent Tehran, besides highlights increasing planetary interest implicit the Islamic Republic's reliance connected superior punishment, peculiarly for drug-related offenses.

According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency  (HRANA), the hunger onslaught started connected July 13, aft six inmates were transferred to solitary confinement up of imaginable executions. Other Iranian quality rights groups said the prisoners had been convicted of drug-related offenses.

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Reports besides bespeak that the striking prisoners person been chanting "No to Execution" and taking utmost measures, including sewing their lips shut.

One media outlet cited a video that appeared to amusement an inmate speaking to the camera and saying helium was going to sew his lips unopen because, six days into the hunger strike, nary situation authoritative had responded to the protest.

The Guardian reported that the video besides appears to amusement an unseen captive utilizing a needle and thread to stitch the man's lips shut.

In a connection released connected July 27, the exiled Iranian absorption group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), reported that prisoners successful Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison were successful "deteriorating carnal condition" due to the fact that of the hunger strike.

"Although 15 days person passed since the commencement of this hunger strike, the henchmen of the regime’s judiciary person fixed nary effect to the striking prisoners. Despite the prisoners’ deteriorating carnal information and urgent request for aesculapian attention, situation guards person taken nary measures to attraction for them," the enactment said.

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The NCRI besides said the striking prisoners urged the public, quality rights organizations and planetary bodies to instrumentality enactment to halt the executions.

This marks the 2nd large objection astatine the installation successful caller months.

A akin protestation occurred astatine Ghezel Hesar Prison successful October 2025, erstwhile much than 1,500 inmates staged a six-day hunger strike, according to reports.

That objection ended aft elder judicial and situation officials made a sojourn to the installation and promised to temporarily halt executions and reappraisal cases.

However, quality rights activists study those promises were ne'er fulfilled, according to Ynet.

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The State Department had designated and sanctioned Ghezel Hesar Prison successful 2024 for gross quality rights violations and cruel, inhuman and degrading attraction of prisoners.

"These heinous acts included aggregate terrible beatings of governmental prisoners engaged successful a peaceful hunger onslaught to protestation the accrued question of executions being carried retired astatine the facility," then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken said astatine the time.

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According to Amnesty International, the Islamic Republic of Iran executed astatine slightest 2,159 radical successful 2025.

Iran’s full helped thrust the fig of executions recorded by Amnesty International to astatine slightest 2,707 crossed 17 countries — the highest fig the enactment has recorded since 1981. The full excludes China, wherever execution information is classified arsenic a authorities concealed and Amnesty believes thousands of executions were carried out.