Execution of six prisoners in Khuzestan; ambiguity in the trial process and human rights concerns

According to Hale Vash, this morning, Saturday, October 12, 1404, the Judiciary Media Center announced the execution of six Arab prisoners in Khuzestan Province.

According to a report by human rights organizations, the identities of the six executed Arab political prisoners are: Ali Majdam, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Daris, Adnan Ghobishawi, and Salem Mousavi; these individuals have been identified as members of the Harakat al-Nidal group.

The judiciary statement named four members of the security forces who it claims were involved in the deaths of prisoners: Allahnazar Safari, Mohammad Reza Rafiei Nasab, Ali Salehimajd, and Younes Bahr. They were also charged with “collaborating with Israel, planning and carrying out acts of sabotage, manufacturing and planting bombs, exploding a gas station in Khorramshahr, attacking banks, throwing grenades at a military center, and shooting at mosques.”

Human rights activists have previously warned about the lack of transparency, the extraction of confessions under torture, and the holding of unfair trials in similar cases in Khuzestan.

International organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have repeatedly emphasized that death sentences in Iran, especially in political, security, and ethnic and religious minority cases, are often issued without observing minimum fair trial standards.

It is worth noting that Iran is consistently among the countries with the highest number of executions, and UN human rights experts have expressed concern about the alarming increase in executions in recent years, especially in the provinces of Khuzestan, Kurdistan, and Sistan and Baluchestan.