IRAN - Najibollah Dahmardeh Executed in Ghaemshahr on December 20

December 20, 2023 - Najibollah Dahmardeh Executed in Ghaemshahr on December 20
According to Haal Vsh, a Baluch man was secretly executed in Ghaemshahr Prison (Qaem Shahr) in Mazandaran province on 20 December. His identity has been reported as 41-year-old Najibollah Dahmardeh, a Balulch man from Sistan and Baluchistan province who lived in Golestan province.
Najibollah was arrested in Ghaemshahr for drug-related charges on 7 September 2018 and sentenced to death by the Ghaemshahr Revolutionary Court. He was executed without his family being notified and the chance to say goodbye to them.
At the time of writing, his execution has not been reported by domestic media in Iran.
Ethnic minorities, the Baluch in particular, are grossly overrepresented in execution numbers in Iran. In 2022, at least 174 Baluch minorities including 3 women, were executed in 22 prisons across Iran, making up 30% of overall executions. This is while they represent just 2-5% of Iran’s population. Furthermore, at least 274 Baluch people have been executed for drug-related charges since 2021, 40% of all drug executions in that time period.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/6418/
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/covert-execution-of-baloch-prisoner-in-qaem-shahr-central-prison