At least 1,500 death row inmates at Iran’s Ghezel Hesar Prison have been on hunger strike for two weeks over a surge in executions: Some have sewn their lips shut, demanding an end to the death penalty

Inmates in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj continued their hunger strike and sit-in for the fifteenth consecutive day on Monday, ...

At least 1,500 protest after six men on drug-related charges put in solitary confinement before possible execution