The Price of a Rope: How 1,500 Starving Prisoners Forced Iran’s Regime to Blink

Three-minute read On July 13, six men in Ward 2 of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj were dragged to solitary confinement to be hanged. What followed was not silence. The ward refused its food rations. Then the sit-ins began, then the chanting — “No to execution,” “Be our voice” — and then, when after two […]


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