{"id":5137,"date":"2026-10-28T17:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:36:51","slug":"13th-anniversary-of-the-retaliatory-execution-of-16-baloch-prisoners-including-two-children-in-zahedan-central-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhrg.info\/en\/13th-anniversary-of-the-retaliatory-execution-of-16-baloch-prisoners-including-two-children-in-zahedan-central-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Anniversary of the Retaliatory Execution of 16 Baloch Prisoners, Including Two Children, in Zahedan Central Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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13th Anniversary of the Retaliatory Execution of 16 Baloch Prisoners, Including Two Children, in Zahedan Central Prison<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

According to the Balochistan Human Rights Group (BHRG), today, Monday, 26 October 2026, marks the 13th anniversary of the execution of 16 Baloch prisoners in Zahedan Central Prison. The executions took place in the early hours of 26 October 2013, one day after an armed attack on a border post in the Saravan region. Iranian judicial authorities described the executions as a retaliatory measure. Among those executed were eight prisoners facing political charges, including two who had been children at the time of their arrest, and eight prisoners convicted in drug-related cases. Reports indicate that the bodies were secretly buried in a cemetery outside the city without transparent notification to their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eight executed political prisoners were identified as Mehrullah Rigi Mahernia, 22, who had been arrested at the age of 17; Abdolwahab Rigi, 23, arrested at the age of 18; Habibollah Riginjad Shuraki; Nazer Mollazahi, 23; Hamed Vekalat, 28; Salman Miaei (Jedgal), 25; Ayoub Bahramzehi; and Saeed Narouei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eight other prisoners executed in drug-related cases were identified as Azam Gorgij, son of Gomsad; Davoud Mirblochzehi, son of Abdolrashid; Hassan Rezaei, son of Mirza; Habib Totazahi, son of Mohammadakbar; Naser Shahbakhsh, son of Mohammadhasan; Ahmad Dehmordeh, son of Khodarahm; Hassan Brahouei, son of Feyz Mohammad; and Najibollah Bahadori, son of Amir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The executions followed an armed attack on a border post in the Saravan region on the evening of Friday, 25 October 2013, which killed at least 14 border guards and injured seven others. Mohammad Marzieh, the then Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Zahedan, described the execution of the 16 prisoners as an act of \u201cretaliation.\u201d Judicial authorities at the time stated that the sentences had previously been postponed in what they called an act of \u201cIslamic clemency,\u201d but were carried out following the attack. These prisoners had been arrested before the attack, and their cases had no direct connection to the armed operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mass executions provoked strong condemnation from human rights organisations and activists. Ahmed Shaheed, the then United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, considered the executions a form of retaliation in a conflict and contrary to international human rights law. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, Sarah Leah Whitson, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights organisations also condemned the executions, objecting to the use of the death penalty as retaliation and the failure to uphold fair trial standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirteen years later, the execution of these 16 prisoners remains a deeply controversial example of collective punishment and the use of the death penalty in response to an armed attack in Balochistan. The incident serves as a reminder of the fundamental importance of the right to life, judicial independence, fair trials and the prohibition of punishing individuals for the actions of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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