Amanollah Baluchi

Amanollah Baluchi

He is the son of Habibollah, the Friday Imam for Kiskhour Sarbaz Village, located in the south of Sistan and Baluchestan Province. He also known as Amin Balochzehi.

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='4143'> He was arrested by agents of the Intelligence Ministry in Pol-e Sarbaz Station while returning from the "Manba-ol-oloom Kouh-e Van" seminary to his home village of Padig. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='4657'> It was reported that he continues to be incarcerated. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='5154'> It was reported that the Zahedan Intelligence Ministry office held a meeting with the Director and some of the staff of the Manba Ol-oloom Seminary in Kouh-e Van. During this meeting, the defendant was summoned and confessed to his crimes. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='5559'> It was reported that the defendant was transferred from the Zahedan Intelligence Ministry's detention center to Zahedan Central Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='7925'> Balouch Activists Campaign reported that after eight months since the arrest of Amanollah Balouchi and Abdolrahim Kouhi, they are yet to be taken to court, and the security forces are telling them that they are still investigating. According to the report, their families have expressed their concern regarding the charges of "acts of terror and attempted bombing", and also their "forced confessions." </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='9080'> According to Balouch Activists Campaign, despite the promises made by Mr. Sharifi, head of Zahedan Intelligence office, two weeks ago the arrest warrants of Amanollah Balouchi and Abdolrahim Kouhi was extended for another month. Based on this report, after the arrest of the two clerics, religious figures and elders and the people of Sarbaz signed a petition testifying to their innocence and asked the Ministry of Intelligence to release the two. According to the report, the head of Zahedan Intelligence office, accompanied by 40 agents, visited Kouhvan Seminary in Sarbaz, and announced that the two will be released shortly. But later they announced that the release of the two prisoners is contingent on the pledge of 23 students of the seminary to avoid endangering public safety. The security apparatus in Sistan and Balouchestan province has a history of violating the principle of personal responsibility while arresting or prosecuting individuals. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10623'> According to Balouch Activists Campaign, Cleric Hamidi, chief justice of the province told the Dean of Manba Ul Uloom school to write a letter regarding the cases of these two and he would follow up and answer within a week. But after over 40 days they are yet to receive a response. According to the report, the two prisoners wrote a separate letter to this judicial authority insisting on their innocence, and had clarified that "their confession were made under torture." </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10622'> Balouch Activists Campaign reported that the case investigator, Mr.Shah Mohammadi, has told Amanollah Balouchi that he has been cleared of all the "murder, bombing, or acts of terrorism terrorist " charges, but the Intelligence Ministry and Revolutionary Guards are saying that he "has associated with terrorists." </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10685'> His brother, Khalil Balouchi, was arrested and battered on the suspicion of smuggling narcotics during visitation in Zahedan prison. According to Balouch Activists Campaign, he was released the next day after "being proved innocent" and leaving his identifications. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='11923'> Balouch Activists Campaign reported that the warden of Zahedan Prison has pressured him to shave his beard, and this has raised protests from other prisoners of Ward 3. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='12516'> Balouch Activists Campaign reported that the interrogator at the branch 6 of Zahedan Revolutionary Court has told Amanollah Balouchi and Abdolrahim Kouhi that there is no need to listen to them because their sentence is going to be death. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='18670'> According to the Campaign for Baloch Activists Amanolla Baluchi and Adbolrahim Kouhi were taken to the court in Zahedan where they were asked to sign the charge forms, but these two individuals refused to sign the papers. According to this report after this, they were told, their “official hearing” will be held in the future. The Campaign writes that the two Baluch prisoners told their families that the hearing was “farcical” and “inconclusive.” </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='26316'> <reference source=''> that he was sentenced to execution and 10 years in prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='34307'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%84%d9%88%da%86/'> In a statement, United For Iran condemned recent executions of Baloch political prisoners and warned about the possibility of executing three other prisoners. Abdulhamid Mirbalochzehi, Hamid Rast Bala, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandarzehi are among the executed prisoners and Amanollah Baluchi (also known as Amin Mirbalochzehi), Abdolrahim Kouhi and Javid Dehghan Khold are also under the threat of execution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>