News Center- 122 union activists, including teacher activist Sara Siahpour, Free Union Workers of Iran (FUWI) vice-president Parvin Mohammadi and teacher activist Nasrin Karimi, announced in a statement on Thursday that they would go on a hunger strike on Friday (January 26) to protest the recent executions in Iran. The activists demand an unconditional halt to the death penalty.

“As a group of intellectuals, union activists and labor activists, we will go on a hunger strike on January 26 to protest unfair trials, executions and injustices in Iran to be in solidarity with 61 female political prisoners, who started a hunger strike on January 25. We demand an unconditional halt to the death penalty,” said the statement.