Iran: Execution of 12 Baloch Compatriots, Including Two Women, in Four Days

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Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Two Baloch prisoners, Mousa Gorgij and Ehsan Gorgij, were hanged in Bandar Abbas prison by Khamenei’s regime on Tuesday, May 2. On Monday, May 1, Aminullah Karimi Qaljaei was hanged in Vakil Abad prison in Mashhad, while on Sunday, April 30, Madineh Sabzevan, a 39-year-old mother of five from the Shirabad region of Zahedan, was executed along with two other Baloch compatriots named Abdullah Zarouzehi and Mohammad Shabik by regime thugs in Birjand prison.

Earlier, the April 30 statement revealed that six other Baloch compatriots, including a woman, had been executed in Zahedan and Iranshahr prisons. This brings the total number of Baloch compatriots executed by the mullahs’ regime to 12, including two women, between Saturday and Tuesday.

In addition, Nasser Hasanpour, a Kurdish prisoner from Bukan who suffered from heart disease, died in Urmia prison on May 1 due to the lack of medical treatment and opposition from regime agents to transfer him to the hospital.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), stated on April 30 that the ruling religious fascism is attempting to extinguish the fire of people’s anger, particularly that of the Baloch countrymen, with these criminal executions, and to save itself from inevitable overthrow. She urged the United Nations and member countries to take immediate action to save the lives of the prisoners sentenced to death. She emphasized that the dossier of the regime’s crimes should be referred to the UN Security Council, and its leaders should be held accountable for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

May 2, 2023