ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities on Sunday executed another prisoner from the Baluchi minority in the country’s southeast, accusing him of taking up arms against the state.
Amer Ramesh was detained following a clash in a village near Chabahar in October 2024, during which three Baluchi men and a member of the security forces were killed, Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported Sunday. Ramesh was charged with taking up arms against the state and membership in Jaish al-Adl, a Baluchi armed group that has clashed with Iranian security forces on numerous occasions.
The Balochistan Human Rights Documentation Center on Saturday said Ramesh was not involved in any clash with security forces and was instead caught in the crossfire while inside a shop. According to the group, security forces were pursuing a car carrying armed occupants when the vehicle stopped outside the shop, and Ramesh was wounded in the ensuing clash.
Baluchi areas in southeastern Iran are among the country’s most deprived regions, and members of the minority account for a disproportionate number of those executed annually by the Islamic Republic.
Iran is one of the world’s leading users of the death penalty. More than a dozen political prisoners have been executed since February 28, when Israel and the US launched an extensive air campaign against Iran, targeting thousands of sites before the warring parties agreed to a ceasefire on April 8.