Semi-Annual Report for the First Half of 2024 on Executions of Baloch Citizens
According to reports received from the Balochistan Human Rights Group, from January 1 to June 30, 2024, at least 30 Baloch prisoners have been executed on various charges in different prisons across Iran.
The ongoing and alarming trend of executions indicates that the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to use the death penalty for some detainees, raising serious concerns about human rights violations against Baloch citizens.
In the first half of 2024, at least 30 Baloch citizens were executed in fourteen different cities across Iran. This statistic only includes cases that Baloch human rights researchers and activists have been able to gather through field research and communication with the relatives of executed individuals in various parts of Balochistan. Given the prohibition on independent human rights organizations operating within Balochistan and the threats from security agencies against the families of the executed to prevent news from being publicized, the actual number of executions is undoubtedly higher than those identified.
This report highlights the critical human rights situation in Balochistan and underscores the urgent need for international intervention and pressure on the Iranian government to stop these executions and respect human rights. The alarming increase in executions in Balochistan requires serious attention from the international community and human rights organizations. Protecting the rights of Baloch citizens and striving to end human rights violations in this region must be a priority. Continuation of this trend will only deepen the human rights crisis in Iran.
The Balochistan Human Rights Group believes that only through serious attention and intervention by the international community can the human rights situation in Balochistan be improved, and widespread and systematic human rights violations in this region be ended.
List of Executed Individuals and Their Details
________________________________________
Nezam Dahmardeh
- Age: 48
- Father: Bazmohammad
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: January 11, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Yazd
Hasan Gorgij
- Age: 23
- Father: Hanif
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: January 20, 2024
- Crime: Murder
- Execution Location: Zahedan
Masoud Rigi
- Age: 24
- Father: Abolaziz
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: January 22, 2024
- Crime: Murder
- Execution Location: Zahedan
Aref Eshaghzahi
- Age: 24
- Father: Zaher
- Arrest Location: Zabol
- Date: January 28, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Birjand
Asef Eshaghzahi
- Age: 30
- Father: Zaher
- Arrest Location: Zabol
- Date: January 28, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Birjand
Milad Galavi
- Age: 29
- Arrest Location: Zabol
- Date: March 3, 2024
- Crime: Murder
- Execution Location: Khash
Farshad Rakhshani
- Age: 25
- Father: Seyed Ahmad
- Arrest Location: Dehne village, Golestan
- Date: March 6, 2024
- Crime: Murder
- Execution Location: Gonbad Kavous
Hamid Gorgij
- Age: 44
- Father: Ebrahim
- Arrest Location: Zahak
- Date: March 7, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Ghazvin
Saeid Jadgal
- Age: 30
- Father: Lalmohammad
- Arrest Location: Dashtyari
- Date: April 21, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Chabahar
Mohammad Anjomrouz
- Age: 33
- Father: Molabakhsh
- Arrest Location: Dashtyari
- Date: April 21, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Chabahar
Ahmadreza Miri
- Age: 34
- Father: Mohammad
- Arrest Location: Zabol
- Date: April 21, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Kerman
Shamsoddin Kashani
- Age: 53
- Arrest Location: Not provided
- Date: April 21, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Kerman
Shokat Shahbakhsh
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: April 21, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Kerman
Unknown
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Not provided
- Date: April 21, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Kerman
Rashed Balochi
- Age: 35
- Father: Abdolvahed
- Arrest Location: Saravan
- Date: April 28, 2024
- Crime: Murder
- Execution Location: Bandar Abbas
Mansour Naroui
- Age: 36
- Father: Malekshah
- Arrest Location: Galikesh, Golestan
- Date: April 28, 2024
- Crime: Murder
- Execution Location: Gonbad Kavous
Unknown
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: April 28, 2024
- Crime: Unknown
- Execution Location: Ghaen
Unknown (Barahoui)
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Mashhad
- Date: April 28, 2024
- Crime: Unknown
- Execution Location: Ghaen
Mohsen Karami
- Age: 27
- Father: Aghagol
- Arrest Location: Fazelabad, Golestan
- Date: April 28, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Ghaen
Unknown
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Not provided
- Date: April 29, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Isfahan
Unknown
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Not provided
- Date: April 29, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Isfahan
Unknown
- Age: Not provided
- Arrest Location: Not provided
- Date: April 29, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Isfahan
Dinmohammad Mirkhani
- Age: Not provided
- Father: Mohammad
- Arrest Location: Iranshahr
- Date: April 29, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Isfahan
Mohammad Shahbakhsh Dana
- Age: 22
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: April 30, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Birjand
Alireza Sargolzaie
- Age: 25
- Father: Gholamnabi
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: April 30, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Mashhad
Mahmoud Mangoli
- Age: 42
- Father: Shadi
- Arrest Location: Khorasan Razavi
- Date: April 30, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Birjand
Mahdi Eshatarak Shahrestanak
- Age: 40
- Father: Ebrahim
- Arrest Location: Zahak
- Date: April 30, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Birjand
Abdollah Ozbagzahi
- Age: 36
- Father: Abdolrahman
- Arrest Location: Zahedan
- Date: May 8, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Kahnuj
Khalilollah Barahoui (Khodabakhsh Hooti)
- Age: 37
- Arrest Location: Khash
- Date: May 8, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Kahnuj
Saman Malekzahi
- Age: 28
- Father: Khodamorad
- Arrest Location: Fahraj
- Date: May 11, 2024
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Execution Location: Bam
