Execution of the political prisoner, Abdul Hamid Mirblouch Zehi in Zahedan Prison
26-December-2020
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement, December 26, 2020: Mostafa Nili, the lawyer of political prisoner Abdolhamid Mirblouch Zehi, Tweeted that his client had been executed in Zahedan Prison.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, a prisoner named Abdul Hamid Mirblouch Zehi, who had been arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in November 2015, was executed in Zahedan Central Prison on Saturday, December 26, 2020.
Abdolhamid Mirblouch Zehi was arrested on November 28, 2015, after several Intelligence Agents raided his home in the City of Iranshahr in Zahedan. Afterward, to be interrogated, he was transferred to the Intelligence Detention Center in Zahedan. At the time of his arrest, the family members of Abdul Hamid also were beaten by the agents.
On May 30, 2017, Mir Baluch Zehi was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Zahedan, headed by Judge Seyed Reza Javad Mousavi and Judge Mehran Bambi. Mr. Baluch Zehi’s co-defendant, Javid Dehghan was sentenced to death and his other co-defendants, Mahmoud Kalkoli, Omid Imani, and Alireza Bampouri, were each sentenced to 15 years in prison. These citizens had been charged with “acting against national security and Moharebeh (fight against God).”
In the Appeal Court, however, Abdul Hamid’s 15 years prison sentence was increased to death sentence on charge of “Moharebeh through an armed attack on the police.”
Mahmoud Kalkoli, Omid Imani and Alireza Bampouri, the other defendants in this case, did not appeal the verdict of the court of first instance and their 15-year prison sentences were upheld.
It should be noted that these prisoners were severely “tortured” while being held in the detention center of the Zahedan Intelligence Office. Among the forms of torture, they had claimed to have endured were “forced stripping, lashing, and severe insult and disdain.”
Abdul Hamid Mir Baluch Zehi, son of Dadrahim, was from Iranshahr, was about 30 years old.
Mizan news agency affiliated with the judiciary of the Islamic Republic confirmed the execution of Hamid Mirblouch Zehi and introduced him as a member of the Jaish Al Adl Group. According to this news agency, Mir Baluchzehi was involved in the shooting of two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while descending from Birek Mountain on April 9, 2015.