Qasem Nouri Roudini

Qasem Nouri Roudini was a Baloch prisoner held by Iran who was executed on 4 May 2026 despite having had his death sentence overturned on two separate occasions by Iranian courts. His case is documented by Hengaw, the Norway-based Kurdish human rights organisation that has become the principal independent monitor of Iran's wartime executions. The circumstances of his case, a final execution following two successful legal appeals, represent a breakdown of basic appellate process even within Iran's own revolutionary-court system.

Nouri Roudini's execution occurred on the same day as the executions of Houman Rasouli and Mohammad Reza Miri in Mashhad, whom Iranian state media described as 'Mossad elements'. Hengaw's reporting placed Nouri Roudini within a broader cohort: at least 30 detainees from the January 2026 protests have been sentenced to death, with 13 secretly executed as of 4 May. Iran's Baloch minority, concentrated in Sistan-Baluchestan province in the southeast, is systematically over-represented in Iranian execution statistics, historically accounting for a disproportionate share of capital sentences relative to the country's population.

Chief Justice Mohseni Eje'i has issued repeated orders accelerating death sentences since the start of the war, creating what human rights organisations describe as a fast-track pipeline from cell to gallows operating outside normal appellate timelines.