Thousands of Ahwazi masses participate in Yonis' funeral

On Monday 23 March 2015, thousands of Ahwazis has gathered in Mohammareh city to mourn Yonis Asakereh (Ahwazi young fruit seller) who died on Sunday 22-03-2015 after immolating himself in protest against the cruel acts of Iranian authorities who confiscated his small kiosk cutting off the only source of income of his family.

According reliable source from Ahwaz that quoted to Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), the intensity of the audience and the simmering anger in the hearts of the masses changed ceremony to an angry demonstration in the heroic city of Mohammareh.

The Ahwazi mourners came from various Ahwazi cities and rural areas to participate in the funeral. The Ahwazi mourners honoured Yonis’ self-sacrifice and expressed their sincere sympathy to the grieved Family of Yonis, who departed his wife and two children sacrificing himself for the oppressed voice of Ahwazis.

World Water Day: Nearly 7 million Ahwazi people still without adequate drinking water

While the world is celebrating World Water Day (22 March), Ahwazi Arabs are struggling to find safe drinking water. One of the most serious risks threatening the Ahwazis is the slow death of the rivers particularly Karoon, Karkheh and Dez as the dryness of these Rivers has led to drought and desertification of lands.  Such drought is having direct damaging impact on the vast marshlands in Al-Ahwaz such as the Hor Althim, Hor Alhoweizeh, Hor Falahiyeh and Hor minaw.

Ahwaz witness a disastrous dust phenomena for more than half of the year and in most days, the amount of dust particles in the air has reached to dangerous levels and exceeds to more than 70 times than health standard limit and has caused the people in Al-Ahwaz to breath dust instead of air. The density of dust in most days was so severe in which it disabled air pollution measuring devices. Reports and satellite pictures proved that the origin of dust is internal, and there is no relation to other neighbourhood countries as Iranian regime claims.

An Ahwazi protest in front of BBC News Building

A number of Ahwazi activists protested in front of the BBC news channel (Persian section) in the center of London, against its director’s anti-Arab bias on Tuesday March 24, 2015.

Ahwazi activists being gathered for three hours opposite of BBC building and raised placards and chanting slogans against Iranian officials in this channel.

Also in talk with the BBC English officials, the protestors has mentioned that BBC Persian has been neglected or censored most of the Ahwazi activist news about the Iranian suppression against the Ahwazi Arab nation.

In rare cases, the Persian section of BBC has broadcast news about Ahwaz, either news been distorted or using offensive words such as "Arabic speaker", that is insulted Ahwazi Arab nation.

Ahwazi self-immolated has died in Motahari hospital in Tehran

Younes Asakereh, a 32-year-old street vender and father of two

children has died today earlier morning subsequent to setting himself on fire on March 13,2015 after numerous attacks by the Iranian repressive regime's security forces who prevented him from earning a living.

According to Ahwazi activist to send Younis Asakreh to Tehran for treatment, the Iranian airline had demands 50 million Rials (about 2000 Dollar) from his family.

Asakreh’s family due to severe economic situation and the inability to pay for the plane were forced to transfer Younis who suffered from 90% burns by ambulance to Tehran. Distance between Ahwaz capital and Tehran is about 900 KM and the Iranian ambulances are not up-to-date to take care of the patient completely where this time and distance has worsen the patient health.

Iranian revolutionary court demands expensive document for the release of Ahwazi prisoner

Iranian revolutionary Court asked expensive document for the release of Ahwazi prisoners and human rights activists confirms the prisoner family’s inability to provide it.

According to trusted sources that are close to prisoner’s family stated that the judge of Division 12 of the revolutionary court in the capital city of Ahwaz asked the family of the prisoner Ammar Katan Abayat, expensive financial document until he agreed to release him temporary.

Human rights activists said that the prisoner family due to their miserable economic circumstances has been unable to provide a document imposed by the investigating judge to release temporary for the prisoner.

Ammar Katan Abayat age 22 was arrested on Friday morning 12-December-2014 in Alallwa district, in Hamidieh city.

Meanwhile an Ahwazi Sunni preacher by the name of Qassem Abiat (picture) was arrested in early days of February 15 by Iranian authorities on charges of spreading what they called Salafi and Wahhabi beliefs in Ahwaz.

The threat of on-going Persian settlement policies in Al-Ahwaz

Throughout human history, authoritarian regimes have exercised numerous policies to influence and pressure peoples whose homelands are under the grip of domination and occupation. Occupation policies include construction of settlements and relocation of settlers to change demographics to favour their colonial aspirations.  This is one of many ways used gradually to control the indigenous population living under colonial occupation.

History is full of examples illustrating the process of colonialism and occupation, but none more clearly than the example of the brutal Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine. Through the establishment of extensive illegal settlements and introduction of hundreds of thousands of Zionist settlers the occupation has usurped the historical homeland of the Palestinian people.