Kabir Dehghanzehi Kabir Dehghanzehi was just 13 years old when he was arrested crossing the Iranian border with an older man who was found to have drugs on him. Both Kabir and Dad Mohammad Deghanzehi, the older man, were arrested and charged with drug traf cking. Kabir had been travelling to Iran to start a job as a driving assistant. Kabir was kept on death row for 8 years and then executed in 2017 in Zahedan. The fact that he was a minor at the time of the alleged offence was not considered. The execution Rajai Shahr Prison, near Tehran, which houses many took place while Iran was amending its drug policy laws death row prisoners and was part of a number of executions which were carried out before alterations could be made to the law. Minority Groups A large proportion of those sentenced to death and executed belong to minority ethnic or religious groups, such as Baluchis or Kurds. Baluchis are predominantly Sunni Muslims who are mainly situated in the border region between Iran and Pakistan. The Kurdish people are also predominantly Sunnis and live largely in the border areas between Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq. In 2015, a group of four men were arrested and accused of being members of Jaish ul Adl, a Sala jihadist militant organization of majority Sunni Baluchi membership. It is not clear whether the charges were founded or not. Two of those arrested were Iranian and two Pakistani. The two Pakistanis, Denzo Chakerzehi and Shaker Baluch, who are both Baluchi, as well as one of the Iranians Abubakr Rostami (Kurdish), were sentenced to death in August 2017 by the Revolutionary Court in Zahedan. The other Iranian, Aziz Jalali (Baluchi) received a 25-year sentence instead of a death sentence. Abubakr Rostami complained about his treatment to a visiting prison delegation and the Supreme Court has subsequently annulled his execution order. However, the judge posted a bail of 80 billion Romans (£141,000) for his release, which is far beyond the reach of any ordinary person. The two Pakistani men remain on death row, unless their execution has not been publicly reported. Acknowledgments With special thanks to the following organisations and individuals who lent their considerable assistance and expertise towards this research in Iran: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, Iran Human Rights, Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, Justice Project Pakistan, ECPM, United for Iran, Harm Reduction International, Brian Egan and the Centre for Human Rights in Iran. Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford For more research see: fi fi foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow