Hossein Shahuzehi

Hossein Shahuzehi is a 29-year-old Baloch political prisoner from Zahedan who was arrested in Mashhad on 10 December 2022 by plain-clothes IRGC Intelligence agents while on a bus at the city’s terminal. According to Haal Vsh, he was held for about six months in the IRGC Intelligence detention centre, where he was allegedly subjected to severe physical and psychological torture and denied access to a lawyer and family contact. Security agencies accused him of membership of Jaysh al-Adl, weapons possession, attempting to assassinate Ahmad Alamolhoda (the Supreme Leader’s representative in Khorasan Razavi province) and planning an attack on the Mashhad Governor’s Office. Hossein and his co-defendant’s torture-tainted confessions were aired by state media on 16 December, just days after their arrest. Hossein was sentenced to death for unspecified charges by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, which was subsequently upheld, per Haal Vsh. 

CHARGES: Unclear

STATUS: Sentenced to death by the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, upheld by the Supreme Court.