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The Ahwazi Arab death row prisoner Hashem Shabani (31), who is facing imminent execution for "enmity with God" along with four other friends and colleagues, has been transferred to unknown place by the Iranian Intelligent Services. According to Ahwazi human rights sources family of the prisoner are worried that he might be taken for execution. The Ahwazi Arab activist arrested in February 2011, and was sentenced to death in July 2012. He is m…

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ahwazi members

It has been more than 28 days that Ahwazi Arab activists Sayed Yasin Mosawi ,34, Ali Chebeshai, 47, and Salaman Chayan, 32, from Shush city in north of Ahwaz (Khuzestan) province, who have been on hunger strike since 03/07/2013. The Arab detainees protest against the false accusations and charges by the judicial authority who have been suffered serious physical and metal tortures and abuse.

The Arab hunger strikers have been cultural activi…

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ahwazi

.The Judicial Council in Iran has approved the death sentence issued by the Revolutionary Court in Ahwaz against four Arab prisoners from Falahiya (Shadegan). The ratification of death sentence has signed by the Judge Reza Faraj Ulahi, the head division 32 of the Iranian Supreme Judicial Court in Tehran and advisor Sayed Ali Asghar Latifi Roustami on13th February 2013 and families of the prisoners have been informed on 13th of July 2013.

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ahwazi arrested

Four Ahwazi Arab activists from Falahiya (Shadegan), south of Ahwaz in south west of Iran whose death row has been issued recently by the Iranian regime seek help from the international human rights organisations. The Arab detainees have insisted via a leaked letter states that have been experienced serious mental and physical tortures by the Intelligent Service and have been forcibly confiscated on armed activities which they never committed. O…

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The victory of Hassan Rouhani, a 64-year-old cleric, in Iran’s presidential election, presents a new opportunity to address human rights abuses in the country, Amnesty International said today.

Hassan Rouhani, described as a moderate and a pragmatist, made a number of pledges to improve Iran’s dire human rights record during his electoral campaign, for which he must be held accountable in the coming months.

He plans to issue a "civil righ…

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niac

been campaigned with pretext of civil activities, human rights and campaign against the war they benefit the Islamic Republic. One of the worst lobbies is NIAC organisation (National Iranian American Council:http://www.niacouncil.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Persian_index

This lobby extensively acts against the nations and their causes in Iran particularly Ahwazi Arab cause. The organizations have been involved in misleading the international f…

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An Ahwazi

The following letter was written by Ahwazi Arab death row prisoner Hashem Shabani, who is facing imminent execution for "enmity with God" along with four other friends and colleagues. His conviction followed a Revolutionary Court trial that has been condemned by the international community, including UN experts and human rights NGOs, as falling well short of all standards of justice. Shabani was tortured into making a confession, which was broad…

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ahwazi ngo's

Hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs and their supporters demonstrated outside the European Commission offices in Brussels today to mark the eighth anniversary of the Ahwazi intifada.

More than 30 non-governmental organisations signed a declaration to condemn the ongoing persecution of Ahwazi Arabs:

"We the undersigned condemn the planned executions of Ahwazi Arab activists, we condemn past killings and future killings of those whose only crime was to rai…

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Ahwazi sets himself

An Ahwazi Arab man set himself alight inside the offices of the provincial Governor in Ahwaz on April 16 in a protest against unemployment, according to a report by the Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (Ahro).

Following the example of the Tunisian martyr Mohammad Bouzizi, Madhi Hadi Mojadam (32) waited for the Governor to leave his office and dowsed himself in petrol before setting himself alight. Security guards intervened immediately to put ou…

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