Two Baluch Men Secretly Executed for Drug Offences in Kerman

According to Hal Vash, two men Baluch were executed in Kerman Central Prison on January 8. Their identities have been reported as 44-year-old Mohammad Rasoul Shehbakhsh (Notizehi) and a man only identified as Akhtar Mohammad (surname unknown), both from Zahedan.

An informed source was quoted as saying: “Mohammad Rasoul was arrested for drug charges after being shot eight times in the abdomen and legs. He was sentenced to death without his lawyer. Even though the Supreme Court overturned the sentence four times, but Judge Ghorbani from Branch 1 of the Kerman Revolutionary Court told him, you have to be executed. He was transferred to solitary confinement with another Baluch named Akhtar Mohammad at around midday.”

Their executions were carried out without their families or lawyers being notified and the right to a last visit.

At the time of writing, neither of their executions have been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.