Occupied Balochistan News

Zahidan : 

Families of 16 Baloch political prisoners who were killed during a mass execution by Iranian regime in Zahedan have strongly protested on Sunday Morning in front of the governor house.

According to "Human Rights and Democracy in Iran” a large number of residents of Zahedan along with family members of the victims gathered in front of the Governor’s office in the city of Zahedan. The protester demand from the Iranian forces to hand over the bodies of their loved one so that they can hold their funeral, pay the last respects and bury them.

It has been reported that the Police forces, Basiji forces and Mersad on motorcycles and cars have surrounded the families of the victims and they stopped the general public from joining their protest.

Sources on condition of anonymity told Balochwarna news that in most cases Iran does not hand over the bodies of the executed persons to their relatives. Usually the state forces bury them in mass graves and inform their families that their loved ones have been executed for such and such crimes.

The source further said: “If a family try to protest or demand for the body of their loved one – the laws are made so complicated that the victims’ relatives are made to wait for several weeks – they are deliberately harassed and made to go from one office to another to get the body of their loved one.