Today,
Thursday November 27, 14 the Iranian intelligence
service has carried
out an arbitrary arrest that leads to arrest number of innocent Ahwazi
Arab youth in Al-Ahwaz capital.
According
to Ahwazi human rights activists from Ahwaz capital who has confirmed
the Ahwazi peaceful demonstration, said that hundreds of Ahwazi Arab has
gathered on the banks of Karoon River to protest against diverting
Karoon River’s water to the Iranian central provinces (Isfahan, Gom,
Kerman). However, the Iranian security forces attacked the protestors
and dispersed the peaceful assembly by force and arrested a number of
participants.
The Ahwazi activists got a few names of the arrested protestors that are as follows:
1) Abdullah Abyat
2) Mehdi Beit Sayah
3) Khaled Mahawi
4) Naji Abyat
5) Shahin Kaabi
The
sources added that the Iranian intelligence service forces has appeared
as undercover not by army clothes where by arresting and beating each
protestor, they confiscate protestor’s mobile cell phone and wallet and
forwarded them directly to intelligence service detention.
In
this Ahwazi Arab demonstration, people were carrying different banners
that written “ You took petrol and gas but we wont let you take Karoon
River”, “ Dear Ebtekar (Iranian environment ministry) we are not Ethnic
policy makers, we are the people”, “ we want Energy minister impeachment
by illegally conducting Kohrang water diversion”, “We will save Karoon
River”, “ prevent the industrial waste coming to Karoon river” and “we
want revival of all Rivers and wetlands and stop the oil companies from
oil extraction in wetlands”.
The
Iranian authority’s biased and shameful action of diverting water from
the Ahwaz’s Karoon River to the Isfahan province has been carried out
while the world health organization has repeatedly for the fourth times
placed the Ahwaz region on the top of the most polluted region in the
world.
Each
year, thousands of Ahwazi lose their lives as a result of water
diversion, in return the regime by stealing the water from its main
course and pumping it to central Persian regions has exacerbated the
crisis deliberately in line with fulfilling its inhuman ethnic cleansing
policies.
The
Ahwazi Centre for Human rights (ACFH) condemns the outrageous and
inhumane arrests launched against peaceful Ahwazi Arab protestor, and
calls upon all human rights organization especially to United Nations
Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran Dr. Ahmad Shaheed to put the
Iranian human rights violations in equivalence with suspected nuclear
program and also to stop Iranian authorities arbitrary arrest and water
diversions that systematically carried out in line with Ahwazi ethnic
cleansing policy.
Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights
27 November 2014
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