Today, Sunday, October 20, 2024, the execution of Bahman Sheikh-Hosseini, a 32-year-old Baloch prisoner, was carried out in Birjand Prison. Bahman, married with three children, had previously been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Birjand on charges related to drug offenses. He was arrested in Birjand in 2022.
His family went to the prison to collect his body but were not called for a final visit, nor were they informed of the execution.
According to reports, at least 184 Baloch prisoners were executed in Iran in 2023, many of them in the prisons of Zahedan and Birjand. Among them were four women
