Without having been sentenced to death, a Baloch inmate, was executed in Birjand prison
12-June-2020
Category: executions
Breathing in Confinement: On Thursday, June 6, 2020, a Baloch man who had previously been sentenced to prison on drug charges, was executed in Birjand Prison without even having a death sentence.
According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, in the morning of Thursday, June 6, 2020, a Baloch citizen named “Mullah Nasrullah Naroui”, the son of Rumi Ahmad Shah, who was serving his last year in prison, was executed in Birjand Prison without having a death verdict.
“Mullah Nasrullah Naroui, a Baloch man living in Mazandaran, had been arrested on drug charges,” the report said. He had spent more than five years in prison in Birjand and had four more years before his release. He however, had his sentence reduced twice. Once on the occasion of Ghadir Khum Eid and again on the day of the martyrdom of Hazrat Ali on Ramadan, 21. Hence when executed, he had only one year of his sentence left to serve.
According to the report, his family members were only informed of the execution, when they were called for the delivery of the body. The prison director even prevented the executed prisoner’s family to receive his will.
There are also reports on the execution of at least five other Sunni inmates in Birjand Prison, including a woman named Maryam. Their charges are yet to be known. Breathing in Confinement is searching to know if the news is right or wrong.
It is noteworthy that Iran ranks first in the world in terms of per capita execution.