Execution
On 20 June 2010, the Iranian and international media reported that Rigi had been hanged in the Evin Prison in Teheran. IRNA stated that the execution was carried out following a decision of the Tehran revolutionary tribunal. It quoted a court statement saying: "The head of the armed counter-revolutionary group in the east of the country...was responsible for armed robbery, assassination attempts, armed attacks on the army and police and on ordinary people, and murder." His execution was read as a "severe blow" to Jundullah.
In response to the execution, then Iran's Interior Minister, Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, said "Over the past 30 years, our enemies faced defeat in every instance and their latest ploy was the seditionists who wanted to break our ranks. With the execution of this villain, who was backed by several Western spy agencies and the Israelis, complete peace has returned to the region."
Abdolmalek Rigi was buried in Khavaran cemetery, in South East of Tehran.
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