Abduljalil Shahbakhsh

Abduljalil Shahbakhsh was a Baloch detainee executed secretly at Zahedan prison in southeastern Iran on 12 May 2026, 55 days after his arrest. His execution was documented by Hengaw, the Norway-based Kurdish human rights monitor, as part of a cluster of three secret political executions across 11-13 May that compressed Iran's wartime espionage-charge pipeline from one execution per week to one every 16 hours. The charge was wartime espionage under the IRGC's wartime moharebeh ("enmity against God") framework.

Shahbakhsh's 55-day arrest-to-execution interval matches the pattern Hengaw observed in the Bakrzadeh and Karimpour cases, suggesting the Revolutionary Court system is processing wartime moharebeh files on a consistent fortnightly cadence. His ethnic and geographic profile — a Baloch national executed at Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province — is consistent with Iran's pattern of targeting ethnic-minority political prisoners faster than ethnic-Persian cases. No public trial or judicial notification was given before the execution; Hengaw reported that his family was notified after the fact, in line with the secrecy pattern documented across the prior six weeks.

Hengaw's wartime register exceeded 30 documented secret political executions with the three-execution cluster of 11-13 May — the threshold beyond which UN special procedures have historically opened formal investigations. Shahbakhsh's case, alongside that of Ehsan Afrashteh executed the following day, represents the acceleration phase of what Hengaw characterised as a systematic wartime suppression campaign in ethnic-minority regions.