Iran prison hunger strike escalates as inmates sew lips shut in execution protest

Over 1,000 inmates in deteriorating physical condition from prolonged hunger strike; some engaging in self-harm through lip-stitching; risk of execution for drug-related offenses.

In a prison outside Tehran sanctioned by the United States for systematic abuse, more than a thousand men facing execution have entered their third week without food, and some have sewn their lips shut — a gesture that transforms the body itself into a final plea. Their protest began when six fellow inmates were moved toward the gallows, many of them convicted of drug offenses, and it has continued in silence from the state that holds their lives. Iran executed more people in 2025 than any nation on record since 1981, and Ghezel Hesar Prison has become a symbol of that acceleration — a place w

Iran prison hunger strike escalates as inmates sew lips shut in execution protest

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