Baloch human rights sources have reported that 179 Baloch citizens were executed in Iran in 2022, and this figure includes one third of all those executed in the country during the last year.
The “Baloch Activists Campaign” website, which publishes news related to the human rights situation in Balochistan and the Baloch-inhabited areas of Iran, wrote: Last year, 179 Baloch people were executed in Iran, of which 117 people were sentenced to death for crimes related to “Drugs” and 48 people were executed for the crime of “murder”.
According to this website, the actual statistics of executions in Sistan and Balochistan are more than these; However, information on the number of those who were executed cannot be obtained due to reasons such as the lack of knowledge of the families or threats from government institutions.
Amnesty International has previously warned about the “disproportionate” execution of “ethnic minorities” in Iran.
