IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN ZAHEDAN
May 3, 2018: According to Baluch Activists Campaign, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Zahedan Central Prison on murder charges. The prisoner was identified as Abdolbaset Rahmani, 24. A Baluch human rights activist, Habibollah Sarbazi, told IHR, “Abdolbaset had been in prison for five years, and he was one of the Sunnis from Birjand.” HRANA news agency quoted an informed source, “Abdolbaset was transferred to the solitary confinement on May 1, and he was executed today.” The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far. (Sources: Iran Human Rights, 03/05/2018)
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