Iran continues to violate human rights
against its Arabs citizens as seven human right activists from Ahwaz in
southern Iran face the death penalty since December 2012 (case no.
901043630040079). Ghazi Abbasi (31), Shehab Abbasi (27), Abdulameer
Majdami (33) and Abdulreda Khanafra (26) were all arrested based on
unpublished Iranian Intelligence reports according to which the
activists are ‘waging war against God and spreading corruption’. The
other three, namely Hadi Albokhanfer Nejad, Jassim Mughadem Payam and
Sami Jedmawi Nejad are imprisoned for over 3 years and had recently been
expelled to Arbedal prison. The former four activists had recently
leaked a letter to their families from the inside of Iranian
Intelligence prisons calling for help as they are facing both physical
and psychological torture on the hands of the Iranian government.
According to an official weapons expert (Ali Metri) who was responsible
for the prisoners’ case, no bullets were aimed in or at any government
institutions and/or its employees and the activists had murdered no one
whatsoever. The Iranian regime disregarded Metri’s report and assigned
another expert to condemn the activists and justify the sentence.
International
organizations at many occasions had condemned the execution of Ahwazi
Arabs in Iran, an oppressed and
systematically cleansed minority that
constitutes the vast majority of Ahwaz province population in the
eastern Gulf coast. Iran never listened, and never showed mercy to its
Arab citizens and continued to execute activists one after another.
‘It
is time to take collective action and condemn Iran firmly and loudly
with faith that the world’s cries will be heard this time, and the
activists will return to their families safe’, said a member of London
based European Ahwazi Human Rights organization.
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