Three fishermen from Easter Balochistan under the custody of Iranian authorities have been sentenced to five years of imprisonment and fined an estimated of 588,000 Pakistani rupees.
The alleged fishermen include Jalal Ahmed S/O Sahil, Rashid Ali S/O Wash Dil, and Sartaj Baloch are residents of Tehsil Pasni, Gwadar district of Balochistan.
Along with the fishers from Balochistan, eight Pakistani fishermen have also been sentenced to imprisonment. Their identities are ascertained as Sikander Ali S/O Muhammad Hussain, Muzaffar S/O Ghulam Mustafa, Sulaiman S/O Muhammad Hanif, Ghulam Rasool S/O Boral, Maher Bakhsh S/O Omar Bakhsh, Samad S/O of Gurich and Hussain S/O Abdul Razzaq.
A court of Iran’s Hormozgan Province and Jashak district convicted the fishermen in the year 2020.
Human rights groups met the arrested prisoners in Iran’s Minab prison. As per the groups, the fishermen told that they have been sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the court.
The fishermen have completed almost three years of their “punishment”. The grieving families of the convicted fishermen have appealed to the concerned Pakistani authorities to meet with their Iranian counterparts and ambassadors in this regard to reduce the punishment and abolish the charges and fines imposed on the fishermen.