Human
Rights activist from Al-Ahwaz reported that eye witness from “Joubeji”
village located in 7
KM, Southeast of Ramez (Ramhormoz) city has
testified that the Iranian security forces were buried two Ahwazi
martyrs (Hashem Shaabani, poet and Hadi Rashidi, engineer) in last
winter.
According
to eyewitness, the revealed comes after 11 months of Shaabani and
Rashidi’s secret executions that had taken place in early January 2014.
Shaabani
and Rashidi were sentenced to death in January 2013 by Iranian
revolutionary court with ready made charges like “enemy with God”,
“propaganda against regime” and “ threat to Iranian national security”
after months of physical and psychological torture to extract forced
confessions from them.
Hashem
Shaabani and Hadi Rashidi were educated figures of the Ahwazi Arab
people and formed “Alhiwar” or “Dialogue” cultural institute to help
poor Ahwazi Arab’s student who cannot afford educational expense.
Special Rapporteurs for the UNHCR have repeatedly condemned the use of torture and unfair trials against the Ahwazi Arabs.
On
21 February 2014, Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Ravina Shamdasani expressed her concerned about the reported
execution, which has been carried out secretly of Mr Hadi Rashidi and Mr
Hashem Shaabani Amouri, both members of the Ahwaz Arab people.
She
added “Their executions were reportedly carried out last month
(January) following proceedings that did not meet international fair
trial and due process standards, as laid out in article 14 of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The two men were
reportedly sentenced to death on ill-defined charges of “enmity against
God” (Moharebeh), corruption on earth (Mofsid fil-arz)
and acts against national security. They were allegedly denied access
to a lawyer and their families for the first nine months of their
detention, and reportedly subject to torture to force confessions.
Various UN Special Rapporteurs and United Nations human rights
mechanisms had previously expressed serious concerns about their
sentences and appealed to the Government not to proceed with the
executions.” (1)
This
is not the first time that the Ahwazi activists buried in secret
graves, molded cement and far away from their home areas, where the
Iranian authorities buried three brothers and their cousin secretly in
“Baghmalek” city, north of Ahwaz capital and in a mountainous area, and
they are as follows: Taha al-Haidari, Abdul Rahman al-Haidari and Abbas
al-Haidari, and their cousin, Ali Sharifi, who are the residents of
Ahwaz capital and secretly executed in June 2012 and their graves have
been after 18 months ".
Ghazi
Abbasi, Jasem Moghadam Panah, Abdulamir Mojadami and Abdulreza
Khanafereh are four Ahwazi Arab (Falahiyeh city) prisoners, who were
secretly executed in November 2013 and thereafter buried in an unknown
place and so far their families have been left without any notification
of their beloved sons burial place.
The
Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights strongly condemned the outrageous and
inhumane behavior of Iranian authorities against the surge of executions
of Ahwazi Arab political prisoners, which led to long-term
psychological side effect on their families and calls upon all human
rights organization especially to United Nations Special Rapporteur for
Human Rights in Iran Dr. Ahmad Shaheed to put pressure on Iranian
authorities to stop the execution of the Ahwazi Arab, that
systematically carried out in line with ethnic cleansing policy.
Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights
20 November 2014
(1)http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14271&LangID=E
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