Iran executes three prisoners, including two Baloch men, in Mashhad and Isfahan
Hengaw – Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Iranian authorities have executed three prisoners, including two Baloch men, in the central prisons of Isfahan and Mashhad. The prisoners, Rashid Qanbarzehi, Asadollah Bahreh, and Azad Shoushtari, had been sentenced to death on charges related to “drug offenses” and “premeditated murder.”
According to information received by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Rashid Qanbarzehi, a Baloch prisoner, was executed in the early hours of Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at Isfahan Central Prison (Dastgerd Prison).
Qanbarzehi, a married father of six, was from the village of Chah Zard in the Nosratabad district of Zahedan County. He was arrested in Isfahan in 2018 on charges related to “drug offenses” and was later sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court.
His father was executed in Yazd Prison in 2011, while his younger brother, Reza Qanbarzehi, was later executed on similar “drug-related” charges in Chabahar Prison.
Meanwhile, Asadollah Bahreh, a 35-year-old Baloch man from Salehabad in Torbat-e Jam County, was executed at Mashhad Central Prison (Vakilabad Prison). He was married and had one child. Bahreh had been arrested three years earlier on charges related to “drug offenses” and was later sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Mashhad.
Separately, Azad Shoushtari was executed on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at Mashhad Central Prison. He had been arrested about four years earlier on charges of “premeditated murder” in connection with a street altercation and sentenced to qisas (retributive punishment in kind).
According to informed sources, Shoushtari’s family had managed to raise and pay 4 billion tomans of the demanded blood money (diya) to the victim’s family over the years. However, they were unable to secure the remaining 2 billion tomans of the total 6 billion tomans requested.
The victim’s family ultimately declined to grant a pardon, and the qisas sentence was carried out.
Iranian state media and official sources affiliated with the judiciary had not reported the executions at the time of publication.
