HRANA News Agency – The death sentences of seven prisoners previously convicted on drug-related charges and murder were carried out in Zahedan Prison.
According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, at dawn on Saturday, March 1, 2025, seven prisoners, including two Afghan nationals, were executed in Zahedan Prison.
The identities of the executed prisoners have been reported as:
- Basir Roudini, 31, from Zahedan
- Farhad Dahmardeh, 46, father of four, from Zabol
- Musa Pahang, 43, father of two, from Zahedan
- Ghasem Ghanbar-Dezaki, 39, father of one, from Mirjaveh
- Morad Sabero (Badpa), 40,
- Sa’adullah Zarei, 28, from Afghanistan
- Asim Charikar, 30, from Afghanistan
According to this report, Sabero (Badpa) and Roudini were arrested in 2021 on murder charges and later sentenced to death by the judiciary.
The other five prisoners—Ghanbar-Dezakiand Dahmardeh (arrested in 2020), Pahang (arrested in 2019), and Zarei and Charikar (arrested in 2022)—had been sentenced to death for drug-related offenses.
As of the time of this report, prison and judicial authorities have not officially announced these executions.
In 2024, the Department of Statistics and Publication of Human Rights Activists in Iran documented 812 cases related to the right to life, including the sentencing of 214 individuals to death and the execution of 930 individuals. Among these, 4 executions were carried out in public. Of those executed, 818 were male, 26 were female, and 5 were juvenile offenders—individuals under 18 years old at the time of their alleged crimes.