IRAN - Mansour Ghazagh executed on February 13 at Birjand Prison
February 13, 2021: Mansour Ghazagh executed on February 13 at Birjand Central Prison. On February 19, IHR integrated a piece of news it had given in the previous days. IHR previously reported that Baluch prisoners Jamaladdin Barahouyi and Mohammad Barahouyi were executed on drug-related charges in Birjand Central Prison on February 13. Newly obtained information by IHR shows that another Baluch prisoner, on death row for drug-related charges, was also executed at the prison on that day. The identity of the third prisoner has been established as Mansour Ghazagh, a Zahedan resident, who had been on death row on drug-related charges for the last two years. According to Resanak, which first published news of the executions, Mansour Ghazagh’s body has been returned to his family, who buried him the next day. At the time of writing, none of the Baluch men’s executions have been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4632/ (Source: IHR)
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