Video: Mohammad Kheneifer forced confession

Iranian authorities force labour activist #Mohammad_Kheneifer, a worker of the Haft-Tappeh sugarcane company in the north of #Ahwaz, to make forced confessions. In this footage, Kheneifer states: "I deny the rumours and lies spread by the foreign and opposition media that my whereabouts are unknown and that I have been been subjected to torture.”
Mohammed Kheneifer is not the first to be forced to appear in front of camera to make forced confessions. Other workers, such as #Ismail_Bakhshi and civil rights activist #Sepideh_Gholian, who have been arrested again because they exposed that they were subject to torture in prison, were also previously forced to appear in front of camera and make forced confessions.
Forced confessions by political prisoners under torture is a usual method used by the Iranian Intelligence Services. Some officials and some Iranian television channels have been sanctioned by the European Union for broadcasting such confessions, which are considered flagrant violations of human rights.

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Last Updated: 04 February 2019

Families flee homes due to man made flood in Ahwaz

Families from Rofayyeh, a city in Ahwaz, have had to flee thier homes after the man made flood following the opening of Dez dam.
In 2016, the same flood destroyed the livelihood of thousands of farmers in South West of Iran. Damages were estimated to cost millions of Dollars. The farmers were not granted any sort of compensation.
Indigenous Ahwazi Arab farmers have been told to leave these zones. Farmers who cultivated as little as 3-4 hectares were fined by the government.
This is a deliberate attempt to change the demographics of this region; the Iranian government is using the dams as a weapon against the indigenous population. In summer, the water is held behind the dams to prevent it from reaching down stream. As a consequence, Karun river, several lakes and marshlands have been left to dry. Dried marshlands in turn have become the source of high dust particles which sweeps the region following each storm. This region of the world where Hur Alazim (an international marshland) and Karun (Iran’s longest river) is situated is facing serious man made environmental catastrophes and needs the immediate attention of environmentalists and the international community at large.

AHRO
31/1/2019

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Last Updated: 31 January 2019