Iranain authorities arrested about 1,000 children and adolescents in Ahwaz during the November anti-government protests in Iran, according to the local sources of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (AHRO).
As part of the brutal crackdown on protesters, Iranian authorities arrested thousands, including children aged between nine and 17 in the southwestern province of Khuzestan (Ahwaz).
During the protests in late November, the young arrestees were held and interrogated in various security in the province, such as Basij bases, schools, police stations, and IRGC bases. This is due to the lack of detention centres for arrestees this young, say AHRO’s sources.
AHRO’s sources added that the young arrestees are held in worrying conditions, where the state of hygiene and nutrition is extremely poor.
The young arrestees have been verbally and physically assaulted and had their heads covered with sacks during interrogations, according to AHRO’s sources.
The young arrestees have also been forced to sign their confessions with closed eyes. Judges have consequently sentenced the arrestees to imprisonment.
Many of the youngsters informed the judges that they were forced to sign their confessions, but were either ignored or re-interrogated by the judges, which had no effect on the imprisonment sentences.
The youngsters say that their charges include torching banks, destroying public property, participating in riots, attacking police, and creating traffic jams.
About 100 of the young arrestees have been released on bail. Authorities have promised to release more, especially those aged between nine and 12.
All of the arrestees have been transferred to a juvenile detention center in the capital of the province Ahwaz. The center however does not have the capacity to accommodate so many arrestees and so many of the rooms are overcrowded.
In every room of the center, 90 arrestees of varying ages are held, according to those who have been released.
In some cases, older prisoners have been made to share cells with children and adolescents due to lack of space, say AHRO’s sources.
The young arrestees were not taken to court. Instead, judges of the Revolutionary Courts came to the juvenile detention center and issued bail for some, ranging from 50 million to 100 million Toman, depending on the type of charges and the city of residence of the defendant.
The majority of these children were arrested for either being outdoors late at night during the protests or participating in peaceful gatherings in protest of the arrest of their parents or other family members.
More than 2,500 people have been arrested throughout the province of Khuzestan during the protests, according to AHRO’s sources.
The arrestees are kept in worrying conditions at police stations, military barracks, and security and intelligence centers.
AHRO’s sources added that the arrestees are tortured for forced confessions, and the poor state of food and hygiene, particularly for those who were wounded due to security forces firing at protesters, have left these detention centers in dire straits. AHRO’s sources and the human rights activists associated with the organisation have been able to document the above information through a variety of methods, such as taking eyewitnesses’ testimony, speaking to friends and relatives of the arrestees, and other field information.
Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (AHRO) 18 December 2019
On Tuesday 5 November 2019, Dr. Karim Abdian, executive director of Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO), had an exclusive and a private meeting with Dr. Javid Rahman, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, in Washington DC.
The one-hour pre-arranged meeting lasted about 2 hours in length.
Dr. Abdian was also accompanied by Ms. Sevil Sulimany, a PhD candidate representing the Azerbaijani Turks in Iran.
First, Ms. Sulymani discussed very important issues and concerns about the many human rights violations of Azerbaijani Turks in Iran. Issues such as minimizing the population numbers, anti-Turkish discourse by the regime and Persian intellectuals, the situation of political prisoners and numerous other human rights concerns, including the current situations of Southern Azerbaijani Turks in Iran.
Dr. Rahman had many questions about the human rights situation in the al-Ahwaz province, also referred to as Khuzestan by Iranian officials, as well as the Turks in Iran.
Dr. Abdian provided pertinent explanations on many issues and concerns about the Ahwazi-Arabs and the Azerbaijani-Turks as summarized below:
Thorough explanation about the Iranian penal code, judicial structures and the various Iranian court systems, specifically in the Khuzestan province. Since Ahwazi citizens are not allowed to study in their native Arabic language they lose global citizenry rights. Because of this denial of rights, Ahwazis cannot understand the judge, prosecutor or the police or the guards or any of the court proceedings. The government will not provide translators and discourages them. Therefore, Ahwazi-Arab citizens do not understand the charges against them and is true throughout the due process of law, during court systems, during detention and during integration in or outside the prisons.
Sometimes, Arab citizens bring family members to court to translate for them. Intimidated with fear they often whisper what was said by the judge in the ears of the of the defenders. Although readily available bi-lingual lawyers are not provided. In response to Dr. Rahman’s solicitating for immediate remedy Dr. Abdian suggested there should be an independent and autonomous bi-lingual judicial system established. Additionally, since Arabs are the majority that live in Khuzestan, only bi-lingual Arabic-Farsi employees should be hired including judges, persecutors and lawyers for this reason.
A very lengthy discussion occurred on the in human conditions of the prisons including extreme overcrowding, lack of sanitary procedures in the prison facilities, lack of basic nutrition and unavailability of medicines and basic healthcare were discussed.
AHRO explained the common practice of exiling of imprisoned Ahwazi-Arabs to remote far away Persian provinces for sentencing. This practice of sending people to far Persian provinces is done as extreme punishment to deny their family visitation rights. This illegal practice is also used to force assimilation of Arab prisoners into the dominant Persian culture to include language.
Denying Arab students’ and education in their native Arabic language results in widespread illiteracy or semi-illiteracy among Arab and other non-Persian nationalities.
It was discussed that among Arab women the illiteracy is very high but the regime blames the citizens for the high illiteracy rate. Dr. Abdian explained a very discriminatory practice by the regime to assign non-local and non-indigenous officials such as the governor general in non-Persian provinces . Moreover, usually the deputy governor- general for women is assigned also from the non-local population. In the Arab majority al-Ahwaz or Khuzestan this position has never been filled with an Arab woman from the Arab natives. In all cases, a woman deputy is brought from Tehran and always a Persian spoken woman who cannot speak Arabic and advises Ahwazi Arab women of their right to education which is not understood.
The attack on a Military parade in September 2018 in Ahwaz ,was discussed in detail per Dr. Rahman’s request. It was explained that this operation was very sophisticated well beyond the local Ahwazi’s capabilities. The three attackers who were identified were indeed ISIS members. The attackers admitted and identified themselves as ISIS in a film that was broadcasted hours before the operation. Incidentally, the regime’s official position was that the attackers were ISIS members and days later retaliated against ISIS by bombing and destroying its headquarters in Iraq and Syria which were responsible for the attack. Yet more than 800 Ahwazi people were arrested and charged with planning the attack and have been in detention for over a year!
The names of 30 individuals of the above detainees are sentenced to death and were given to the UN special reporter – the list includes four women.
Also, the chauvinistic policies and the anti-Arab racism by Islamic republic and previous regimes in Iran were explained by AHRO in depth.
Discussed the media outlets including VOA and BBC Farsi’s anti-Arab racist stance and how they boycotted AHRO and its staff by not covering the human rights violations of the Ahwazi-Arab people.
Discussed the devastation of nearly 300 Ahwazi villages that were totally or partially destroyed during the recent flooding. The villages and their residents are still without any help from the government.
Discussed and submitted the names of imprisoned young Ahwazi volunteers during the floods in Khuzestan – they are still being detained without charges after six months.
Discussed the regime’s illegal implementation postponement of Article 15 of the Constitution that allows study of native languages and allowing media in local native languages for Ahwazi-Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Baloch and Turkmen.
Provided the list of names of recent Ahwazis who were executed in the past two years and compared the number of executions among other nationalities in Iran illustrating Ahwazi execution is the highest in Iran among all minorities.
Iran's Revolutionary Court in Tehran, on Saturday, sentenced seven laborers and activists 110 years imprisonment and 74 lashes for organizing and covering protests and strikes by workers at the Haft Tapeh sugar cane company, north of city of Ahwaz.
The following are the names of the convicts and the details of the verdicts given by Judge Meqaisa, President of Section 4 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran:
Ismael Bakhshi, laborer and trade unionist of the Sugar Cane Company, 14 years imprisonment
Speida Golian, labor rights activist, 19 years and six months in prison
Amir Hossein Mohammadi Fard, editor-in-chief of "Gam" magazine and labor rights defender, 18 years in prison
Asal Mohammadi, member of the editorial board of the magazine "Gam" and an advocate for the rights of workers, 18 years imprisonment
Sanaz Al-Hayari, editorial board member of the magazine "Gam " and an advocate for workers' rights, 18 years imprisonment
Amir Amergoli, member of the editorial board of the magazine "Gam" and a defender of workers' rights, 18 years imprisonment
Mohammed Khneifer, worker and trade union activist at Sugar Cane Company, 6 years imprisonment
The verdicts were given based on vague and flimsy charges such as “assembly and collusion with the intention of acting against national security,” “insulting the Supreme Leader,” “spreading lies,” “propaganda against the regime” and "disturbing public order.” Workers have been going on strikes and peaceful protests over the past year for not receiving their salaries for several months, poor working conditions, dismissal of workers and other trade union demands.
Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (AHRO) strongly condemns these repressive provisions and calls for the abolition of these sham trials and the immediate and unconditional release of all detained workers and activists.
Iranian authorities executed Ahwazi activists Abdullah Karmollah Chaab and Qassem Biet Abdullah in Dezful prison on Sunday, 4 August 2019, after extracting forced confessions from them under torture. The two activists had been subject to torture for several months.
The head of the province of Khuzestan’s courts in Ahwaz, Abdul-Hamid Amanat Behbahani, told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) that these activists were involved in a shooting at a religious gathering in Safi Abad town in the city of Dezful in 2015, which left two people dead and three others injured.
Three other defendants were sentenced to long prison terms and deportation to remote areas in Iran, Behbahani added.
In a letter in May 2019 to Ebrahim Raisi, the Head of the Judiciary in Iran, Amnesty International mentioned that Abdullah Karmollah Chaab and Qassem Biet Abdullah " Sunni Muslims from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, are on death row following a grossly unfair trial which relied on ‘confessions’ they say were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment. They have been convicted of ‘enmity against God’ (moharebeh) in connection with an armed attack on a Shi’a religious ceremony in Safiabad, Khuzestan province, on 16 October 2015, which left two people dead. They have denied any involvement in the attack. Their lawyers have said there is no evidence linking them to the attack and have identified inconsistencies between the ‘confessions’ that led to their convictions and the accounts of eyewitnesses present at the scene of the crime. On 19 October 2015, both men were arrested by the ministry of intelligence and held in solitary confinement in an unknown location for six months. They have since been moved to several different detention centres. They have been given extremely limited access to their families through irregular telephone calls and only one visit. On 9 April 2019, they were transferred to a ministry of intelligence detention centre in Hamedan, Hamedan province, where they have been denied access to their families.”
Both men have said they were subjected to months of torture in detention including by being beaten and given electric shocks. Abdullah Karmollah Chab has said his interrogators hung him upside down for 11 days and subjected him to mock executions, saying they would execute and bury him in an unmarked grave. For three mornings in a row, according to him, they woke him, put a sack over his head and a noose around his neck, and told him that if he “confessed” he would not be executed. He refused, saying he was innocent. On the third day, he said he heard one of the interrogators say: “Just let him go. If he had anything to confess, he would have done so by now.” Both men were denied access to a lawyer until the day of their trial, when they were represented by a state-appointed lawyer. During their trial before the Revolutionary Court in Ahwaz on 22 June 2016, they reportedly removed some of their clothes to show torture marks on their bodies to the court. However, no investigation was ordered. Iran’s Supreme Court later quashed the conviction and sentence due to lack of evidence and flawed investigations and ordered a retrial. On 6 July 2017, they were sentenced to death again.”
Abdullah Karmollah Chaab and Qassem Biet Abdullah were amongst 15 Ahwazi Arabs who were arrested following the armed attack on a religious ceremony in Safiabad on 16 October 2015.
Within weeks of the attack and before their trial had taken place, the authorities made a series of announcements that undermined their presumption of innocence. On 1 November 2015, the public prosecutor of Dezful, Khuzestan province, announced: “After arresting all of the perpetrators on this incident, and [obtaining] their confessions, it is clear that this was a terrorist incident.” He went on to accuse the detainees of belonging to a group that called itself Jandolfareq, which he said had 15 members and aimed to commit sabotage operations and other acts in the province. He said: “Thankfully, they were identified and arrested after their first operation and had their weapons and other devices discovered and seized. According to the law, their crime is certainly that of moharebeh and they have been charged as such.” On 17 November 2015, the Islamic Republic News Agency also reported that the head of the justice department in Dezful told its reporters: “I anticipate that these ‘terrorists’ will be convicted of moharebeh and handed down a punishment that will make them pay for their deplorable actions and serve as a lesson to others.”
In court, Abdullah Karmollah Chab and Ghassem Abdullah were tried alongside six other Ahwazi Arabs. The prosecution authorities accused them of involvement in an armed group called Jandolfareq, which they described as following a “Salafi Takfiri” ideology but failed to provide any evidence to show how the defendants were connected to the group.
Their lawyers also said that there is no evidence linking them to the attack. There are many contradictions in the file and a conflict in the forced confessions that led to their conviction, especially as they contradict the accounts of eyewitnesses who are in the crime scene. These include inconsistencies between “confessions” the men say they made under torture and the evidence presented to the court. The men are said to have “confessed” that the car they used during the attack was a white Peugeot Persia while eyewitnesses have stated that a silver Peugeot 405, which is an older model, was used by the assailants. In addition, Ghassem Abdullah, who is a farmer, told his interrogators that he owns a rifle and indicated where they could find it. However, according to statements made by the arms specialist assigned to this case and a report by the security authorities, three shells found at the scene of the crime do not match the bullets found in the cartridge of the rifle that was retrieved from Ghassem Abdullah’s home. Despite these and other inconsistencies, the judge presiding over their trial refused to order an investigation into their torture allegations and accepted their “confessions” as evidence to sentence them to death.
The six other defendants on trial with them were also convicted of “enmity against God” but were spared the death penalty and were instead sentenced to between three and 25 years in prison. The names of those sentenced to imprisonment are as follows:
Ahmed Abdullah, 30 years old, from Shoush, sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Majed Bait Abdullah, 23 years old, from Khalaf Muslim village, 25 years of life imprisonment.
Hassoun Bait Abdullah, 31 years old, from the village of Dergal, 25 years of life imprisonment.
Hussein Abdullahi, 24 years old (brother of Abdullah Abdullahi), from Shavour, three years in prison.
Issa Abdullahi, 30 years old, and Majid Abdullahi, 24 years old, both sentenced to three years in prison.
Abdullah Karmollah Chab is a 38-year-old with three children, and Qassem Abdullah is a 32-year-old farmer with two children. Both men, from Shush county in Khuzestan province, are Sunni Muslims who have converted from Shi’a Islam.
Under international human rights standards, individuals charged with crimes punishable by death are entitled to the strictest observance of all fair trial guarantees. The arbitrary deprivation of life, as well as torture and other ill-treatment are absolutely prohibited at all times and in all circumstances.
Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) strongly condemns the execution of the Ahwazi activists Abdullah Karmollah Chaab and Qassem Biet Abdullah, expressing deep concern about the increasing number of executions in Ahwaz region (Khuzestan) and calling for the abolition of the death penalties against other activists in Ahwaz prisons and the abolition of prison sentences against the other six prisoners, and other arbitrary sentences against Ahwazi Arab activists. Moreover, AHRO demands fair and public trials in the presence of independent lawyers. Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) 5 Aug 2019
38 Ahwazi Arab activists who were voluntarily helping flood victims have been arrested for allegedly distributing “false information” regarding the floods. Meanwhile, various documents, videos and photos have emerged that show that the IRGC, the Ministry of Oil and the Iranian government are not willing to direct the floods to the Hur Azim area due to potential damage to oil facilities.
So far, 270 villages in Khuzestan Province have completely drowned and have been evacuated. Floods have reached 11 cities. The number of injured and displaced people has reached half a million overall.
Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (AHRO) condemns the arrest of activists and demands for their immediate and unconditional release. AHRO also calls on international human rights organisations to condemn these repressive measures by the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Union of steelworkers at Arcelor Mittal (La Gota) of Villa Constitution Argentina expanded their international call for support of Ahwaz steel and Haft-tappeh sugar workers.
La Gota contacted various workers' organizations and non-governmental organisation in the south America countries including Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Between December 2018 and January 2019, the following organisations and unions from Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina supported the international call for the release of Ahwaz steelworkers:
From Argentina: -Solidarity letter from the Comisión de Trabajadores Condenados ( Commission of detained workers) For the detained oil workers of Las Heras in Argentina. Hugo González and José Rosales who are sentenced to life in prison, Rubén Bach and Omar Mansilla each sentenced to 5 years in prison. In addition, their spouses Raquel Valencia, Claudia Bazán, Claudia Pafundi.
In their letter they jounce their voice to the voice of working class in Iran and ended their letter with the following quotes “To trespass one of us, is to trespass all of us” and “The rebellion of the slaves is not a crime, but justice”
-Mapuche community in Argentina, (Pu lof en Resistencia Cushman, Comunidad del pueblo originario Mapuche del PuelMapu-Tierra del Este) -Isabel Huala, mother of Facundo Jones Huala, a Mapuche political prisoner who was sentenced to 9 years in prison adds her voice of solidarity with the Iranian political prisoners and their mothers. -Shipyard workers of Rio Santiago, Avanzada Obrera Lista Negra
From Chile: -Confederación Democrática Profesionales Universitarios de la Salud -Pamela Valenzuela – MSPT (Movimiento Salud Para Todos) -Maribel Gonzales – Colectivo Solidaridad (collective solidarity) -Eduardo Muñoz – Sindicato Hospital del Profesor -Constanza Cifuentes (Syndicate of Professor Constanza Cifuentes hospital ) -Coordinadora Feminista 8 de marzo (Feminist Coordination of March 8th)
From Bolivia: Mine workers in Huanuni.
We thank all the workers, unions and individuals from Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile for their solidarity and support of the working class in Iran and especially Ahwaz, the beating heart of social right and worker’s movements. Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (AHRO) 9th Jan 2019
For the fifth day in a row, Children and families of seven workers of the Ahwaz Steel Company have continued their protest rally to demand the release of their parents and sons who have been detained for more than two weeks due to their participation in the demonstrations of the company workers who have been roaming the city for more than a month. The seven detained workers are as the following: 1-Tariq Khalafy 2- Ghareeb Howaizawi 3- Karim Sayahi 4- Mustafy Abayat 5. Behzad Arikhani 6. Kazem Heidari 7. Maytham Ali Qanwati In front of the governorate building, the families chanted "Death to the oppressors" denouncing the continued detention of innocent workers and depriving their families and children of meeting them. More than two weeks ago, the Iranian security forces launched raids on the homes of protestors and arrested more than 41 of them. Most of the workers have been released. However, some of the detainees are still being held at an unknown location while the security services refrain from disclosing the charges against them. The workers continued their protests, which began last November and lasted for more than six weeks. They chanted slogans such as "We stand and die, we do not accept humiliation," "No threat, no prison no longer frightens us" and "Get out of Syria and think about us." The steel industry in Ahwaz has an annual production capacity of one million and 435 thousand tons of steel products and 430 thousand tons of steel alloys and employs 4,000 people of the specialized workforce. Workers say factories are facing bankruptcy and stagnation due to rampant corruption, favouritism and looting which is also committed by officials. Ahwaz Human Rights Organization condemns the continued detention of these workers by the security forces while condemning the crackdown on labour protests and peaceful strikes and demands the immediate release of the detained workers. In addition, paying the salaries and entitlements of the workers. Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation 30 December 2018
According to reports from Iranian Workers Union, today 17 December 2018 , 28 workers from the Ahwaz Steel National Industrial Group, who have striking for more than one month, been arrested by security forces and transferred to an undisclosed location. The following is the list of workers currently detained: 1- Meysam Ali Ghanavati 2- Isa Mar’ee 3- Amin Alvani 4- Morteza Akbarian 5- Taregh Khalafi 6- Masoud Afri 7- Jafar Sobhani 8-Mostafa Ebeyat 9-Gharib Houizawi 10- Karim Sayahi 11- Hamed Baseri 12- Hafez Kanaani 13 - Hamed Jodaki 14- Hossein Davoodi 15- Kazem Heydari 16- Yasser Ebrahimian 17- Majid Janandleh 18- Cyrus Ismaili 19- Ali Agh’ba 20- Mohsen Baluti 21- Mohammad Pour Hasan 22- Mohsen Pah’bati 23- Seyyed Habib Tabataba’i 24- Jassem Romezi 25 - Ali Etmami 26- Seyyed Ali Javadpour 27- Javad Gholami 28 - Abdolreza Dasti Despite the crackdown and arrests, workers of the Ahwaz Steel National Industrial Group, continued their protests for 37th day in the city centre of Ahwaz and shouted slogans demanding the release of their fellow colleagues, and putting an end to state corruption. The Ahwazi Human Rights Organization condemns the arrest of labor activists by the security forces. We also condemns the crackdown on labor protests and peaceful strikers who are demanding the immediate release of their detained colleagues, and their unpaid wages. Ahwaz Human Rights organization 17 December 2018
Despite the denial of the governor of Khuzestan and a member of the National Security Commission of the execution of 22 Ahwazi activists -in connection with the attack on the military parade- concerns continue about “secret executions “- which is in fact not unprecedented in Ahwaz.
Gholam Reza Shariati, governor of Khuzestan, told "IRNA" that “the news is false.”
Adding that there are charges against the prisoners, but these information should be detained from the judiciary.
However, the families of the defendants are still concerned about the possibility that the detainees may be forced to confess under torture in the Ministry of Intelligence's secret detention centers, as there are many similar examples in the past years where Ahwazi Arab activists were killed under torture or executed following forced confessions. What mainly raises our concern in AHRO is that the detainees are subjected to vague and unfair judicial process without the right to acquire independent lawyers.
The Ministry of Intelligence had previously released a video of the arrest of these 22 people claiming they “supported or were involved" in the military attack and allegedly they were arrested in a house in which "explosives, military equipments and communication devices“ have been discovered and confiscated.
Although ISIS announced the responsibility for the attack, security forces and the Revolutionary Guards have raided various districts of Ahwaz and other Arab cities in the past two months, and over 800 people among them women, the elites of Ahwazi Arab community, cultural activists, and ordinary citizens were arrested as a result.
The Ahwaz Human Rights Organization, calls for transparency and fair trials for these 22 defendants and other Ahwazi detainees and calls on judicial authorities to allow all detainees the right to visit their families.
Ahwaz Human Rights, while condemning these mass executions and forced confessions that are a result of torture and trial behind closed doors, calls for the involvement of legal entities, in particular, the UN Special Rapporteur Mr. Javaid Rahman, to conduct an independent inquiry into the matter
According to local sources following the recent mass arrests in southwest of Iran more than 600 Ahwazi Arabs were detained, including political and cultural activists in addition to a number of women and ordinary citizens. Below is the name of some of the detainees most of whom are from Ahwaz, Muhammarah (Khoramshahr), Abadan and Khafajiah (Susangerd) cities.
1. Fayez Afrawi, 30 years old, from Alboefri village in Khafajiyah, and his mother. 2. Mohammad Amin Afrawi, 37 years old, from Alboefri village in Khafajiyah, and his mother. 3. Abbas Moghaminemi, 26 years old, from Hijaya village in Khafjayeh 4. Morteza Bayteh Sheikh Ahmad, son of Nasser, 24 years old, from Khafjayeh city 5. Morteza Moghinami, 22 years old, from Hijaya village in Khafjayeh 6. Arif Moghinami, 27, from Hijaya village in Khafjayeh 7. Mohammad Mohammadi (Abyat) 22 years old from Hamidiyeh 8. Qassim Ka'bawi (Ka'bī), 24, from Hamidiyeh 9. Mohammad Amouri, 26, who was arrested instead of his brother, from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 10. Naeem Heydari, 24, from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 11. Aref Ghazlawi, son of Honoun, from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 12. Kazem Ghazalavi, the son of Honoun, from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 13. Ali al-Haya (Haya'i) from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 14. Shakir Sawari from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 15. Seyyed Qasim Mousavi from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 16. Fazel Shamsi from Mallashya (Ahwaz) 17. Danial Adil Amjad, 43, Married, from the Mashalei neighborhood city of Ahwaz 18. Jasem Khorashat, 45, from the Alawi neighborhood (Hay al-Thawra) 19. Jamil Heydari, 33 years old, from Campolou district of Ahwaz 20. Majid Heydari, 25, from Campolou district of Ahwaz 21. Ahmed Hamri, 29, Bachelor, Married, Mandli district, Ahwaz City 22. Sayyed Jasem Rahmani (Musawi), 33, married, and has three children from Alavi district, city of Ahwaz 23. Majid Chaldawi, son of Saadoun, from Alavi district, city of Ahwaz 24. Sayyid Hammoud Rahmani (Musawi from Alavi district, city of Ahwaz 25. Ali Svari, 23 years old, son of Khafas from Aziziyah city of Ahvaz 26. Hatam Rider, from Alavi district, city of Ahwaz 27. Seyyed Sadegh Nazari (Abu Bubil), 70, from Al-Kuhkah (al-Safi) Ahwaz 28. Sajjad Silavi, 25, from Al-Koukhah (Al-Safi) Ahwaz. 29. Qays Ghazi from Mellat district 30. Reza Betrani, 33, son of Haj Mohsen, of Kot Abdullah, has two children. 31. Majed Sawari 32. Ali Ghazi Sawari 33. Mohammad Sabah Sawari 34. Ali Mezbani Nasr 35. Karim Mojadam, 38, father of four, from Islamabad, Kot Abdullah. 36. Mohammad Amin Hasebawi, 30, son of Hajj Mouhiy from Kot Abdullah. 37. Syd Jassem, 35, father of three, from Souisse village, owner of a cafe located on the Ahwaz-Abadan road. 38.Abbas Saki, son of Mrawah, from Hiwazah. 39.Abbas al-Saki son of Abd-ali Sharān from Hiwazah. 40.Abo-Shaellan Saki from Hiwaazah. 41. Ja'far Hazbawi, 28, son of Inied, father of two, from Kot-Abdullah al-Sadeh. 42. Ahmad Hazbawi son of Abdullah, 28-year-old, father of two children from Kot Abdullah al-Sadeh. 43.Farahan Shamosi from Mallashya 44.Aghil Shamosi from Mallashya 45. Lami Shamosi from Mallashya 46.Hadi Abu Salam Ebidawi from Mallashya 47.Maher Massoudi from Mallashya 48. Mukhtar Massoudi from Mallashya 49. Jader Afrawi from Mallashya 50. Jalil Mousavi from Mallashya 51. Sadegh Mousavi from Mallashya 52. Abbas Bedwi from Mallashya 53.Javad Hashemi from Mallashya 54.Ali Heidari Sha'eq from Mallashya 55.Abdoullah Silawi from Mallashya 56. Reyad Shamosi from Mallashya 57.Semir Silawi from Mallashya 58.Ali Mazrah from Mallashya 59.Faris Shamosi from Mallashya 60. Adil zuhairi from Mallashya 61.Sadiq Silawi from Mallashya 62.Milad Afrawi from Mallashya 63. Khalid Silawi from Mallashya 64. Khalil Silawi from Mallashya 65. Jamil Silawi from Mallashya 66. Shani Shamosi from Mallashya 67. Arif Naseri 30-year-old - Kot Abdullah Ahwaz 68. Mousa Mazrah - Abu Hemitha Village 69. Mahdi Mazrah - Abu Hemitha Village 70.Ahmad Souidi Hajia Village 71. Adnan Mazrah - Khafajieh 72.Miss. Lamia Hamadi - Khafajieh 73. Fayez Afrawi from Alboefri village 74_Hassan Harbawi from Al-Faghiyeh. 75_Jumil Ahmadpur (Al-Haya) 76_Andan Abidaway 77-Ramin Bachari, from Muhilah in Ahwaz 78. Omid Bachari, from Muhilah in Ahwaz 79. Aziz Hamidawi, from Muhilah in Ahwaz 80-Mahmoud Doraghi, from Muhilah in Ahwaz 81-Abofarugh Shajirat, from Muhilah in Ahwaz
The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran , through arbitrary arrests are attempting to exploit the armed attack on the parade of the armed forces in Ahwaz which took place on September 22 of this year and justify the suppression of Arab citizens in Iran . This widespread wave of arrests occurs despite the fact that ISIS claimed the responsibility for the attack.
By carrying systematic arrest and spreading intimidation among Arab society, Iranian security forces are attempting at distorting the truth about the growing dissatisfaction of the Arab people against the discriminatory politics of the central government.
Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) condemns these arrests and calls for an immediate and unconditional release of detainees.Moreover, it warns against potential physical and mental torture to obtain compulsory confessions from detainees.
