As Executions Surge in Iran, Prisoners Risk Their Lives to Protest the State’s Killings

For more than two years, prisoners have staged weekly hunger strikes against one of the world’s deadliest execution sprees—despite facing execution, torture, and retaliation June 8, 2026 — As Iranian authorities carry out executions at a pace unmatched in decades, death row prisoners and political detainees across the country have sustained an extraordinary act of […] The post As Executions Surge in Iran, Prisoners Risk Their Lives to Protest the State’s Killings appeared first on Center for Human Rights in Iran .