Persian imperative meaning do not execute. Used as a protest slogan and social media hashtag against the Islamic Republic's execution of detained protesters, especially from October 2022 onward.
Functions as both a moral demand and a tactical pressure tool. Activists pair it with the names of specific defendants to put each individual case in front of foreign governments, journalists, and global publics in real time.
Edam-nakonid is one of the cleanest slogans of the Mahsa movement. Two words, one demand, a verb in the imperative. It does what good protest language does, it puts the cost of saying nothing on everyone in earshot.
Learners following Iranian news after 2022 will see this hashtag everywhere. Knowing it lets them read the room rather than wonder why a phrase keeps repeating.
اعدام نکنید (edam-nakonid) is plain Persian imperative, do not execute. It moved from a sentence into a slogan in October and November 2022, when revolutionary courts began handing down execution warrants for protesters arrested during the Mahsa movement. Activists, lawyers, and ordinary Iranians inside and outside the country pinned the hashtag to every post, every banner, every public letter. The two words read as both a moral demand and a tactical move, naming the specific gallows and forcing every politician to either repeat the words or refuse them. The phrase is short on purpose, you can paint it on a wall in three seconds.
Sources
- Amnesty International: Stop the execution of Iranian protesters
- Iran Human Rights: 2022 protest execution tracking
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