Ahwazi Arab and Azerbaijani Turks activists took part in the International Labor Day demonstrations in Stockholm

The authorities carried out many arrests against the Ahwazi activists on the 9th anniversary of the April uprising in various regions of the Ahwaz province. These are the names of other Ahwazis

 Ali Chebeishat and Sayed Khaled Mousawi

Two Ahwazi Arab prisoners, Ali Chebeishat (47) and Sayed Khaled Mousawi (35) were taken to unknown places by the Iranian Intelligence services. Following months of torture, Chebeishat , Mousavi and Salman Chayan (32), from Shush city, were forced to confess to bomb attacks on a pipeline and a railway track in interviews with Press TV ahead of their sentencing by a revolutionary court in September 2013

Bagher Gholami

The Iranian authorities have been processing a mass wave of arrests among the religious activists of Sunni minority at Ahwaz region about three weeks ago. The security forces arrested dozens of activists, including the activist Bagher Gholami Al-na’ami son of Ishaq, 34 years old who has been arrested from his workplace at Jawaheri district in Ahwaz city three weeks ago, and was transferred to the Intelligence Service. Al-na’ami arrested several times in accusation of changing faith from Shiite to Sunni, and was in imprisonment for a year and half in Karoun Prison in Ahwaz then was released on bail few months ago.

On 7 December 2013, Hadi Rashedi and Hashem Sha’bani Amouri were transferred to an unknown location from Karoun Prison in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. Amnesty International understands that the family members of both men have been receiving conflicting information on their whereabouts and who is holding them from officials at the Ministry of Intelligence, the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz and Karoun Prison.