Three Baloch prisoners executed, including one despite a life sentence
Hengaw – Sunday, June 21, 2026
Iranian authorities executed three Baloch prisoners, Ali Asghar Aminipour, Isa Rahmani, and Hossein Yousefzahi, in the prisons of Birjand, Zabol, and Zahedan. All three men had been arrested on drug-related charges. While Aminipour and Rahmani were sentenced to death, Yousefzahi had been serving a life sentence. He was nevertheless executed in Zabol Prison.
According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Isa Rahmani, a 36-year-old married man and father of two from Sarbaz, was executed in the early hours of June 21, 2026, in Zahedan Central Prison. He had been arrested two years earlier on drug-related charges and later sentenced to death.
On the same day, Hossein Yousefzahi, from the village of Tabasin-e Olya in Nahbandan County, was executed in Zabol Prison after spending 28 years behind bars, despite having been sentenced to life imprisonment rather than death.
Yousefzahi was arrested in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Iranian judiciary. He later spent part of his sentence on furlough and under an open-prison arrangement. Around five years ago, following the opening of a new case involving the discovery of 50 grams of narcotics, he was again sentenced to life imprisonment.
Meanwhile, Ali Asghar Aminipour, a 48-year-old father of three from Sistan and Baluchestan Province who lived in Gorgan, Golestan Province, was executed in the early hours of June 14, 2026, in Birjand Central Prison.
Aminipour's execution was carried out without prior notice to his family and without a final visit with his relatives. He was executed alongside another Baloch prisoner, Mohammad Amin Narouei, a 57-year-old father of three from Zahedan. As previously reported by Hengaw, Narouei had been arrested in 2022 on drug-related charges and was later sentenced to death. Aminipour had been arrested on similar charges three years earlier and was also sentenced to death.
None of these executions have been announced by state media, particularly outlets affiliated with the judiciary, and all were carried out in complete silence.
