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
Ahwazi preacher detained in a bus station in the city of Zahedan, the
capital of predominantly Sunni province of Baluchistan in Iran, when he
wanted to travel to visit his family in Ahwaz.
Sources
close to the family of Qassem Abiat said that Qassem was moving between
Ahwaz and Baluchistan because of his religious study at one the
theological schools, which is teaching Sunni sciences regarding the
Sunni interpretation of Islam in Zahedan city.
For
one week, the detainee’s family did not get any information about
whereabouts of their son’s arrest or detention. As the Iranian
Intelligence Ministry has not responded to the request of Qassem’ family
for meeting him in prison or detention centers to make sure about his
well-being.
According
to Ahwazi human rights activists, in December, 2014 two Ahwazi Sunni
Preachers Hossein Saboori and Sami Zebady Alboghobesh from Ma’ashor city
in Al-Ahwaz were arrested after being accused of burning down a
Husseiniya [a Shia place of worship]. However, the two prisoners have
rejected the charges and said their confessions were extracted under
torture in solitary confinement.
The
Prosecution of Ahwazi Sunnis has been intensifying as 16 Ahwazi Sunni
converts were arrested during Qur’an class in November 2014.
In
July2014, about 20 Ahwazi Sunni converts were arrested for preaching
Sunni and holding congregational Sunni Taraweeh prayers during Ramadan.
Also
in February 2014, more than 20 Sunni converts were arrested at a Qur’an
and Arabic language study meeting in Koye Alawi district in Ahwaz city.
All
arrests carried out by the Iranian authorities against Ahwazi political
activists and Ahwazi Sunni preachers in Al-Ahwaz are illegal and
unfair. In addition, these prisoners after spending long-terms in
Solitary confinements without accessing to lawyers are often subjected
to biased trails that allegedly failed to meet international standards.
In
recent months, the security elements to arrest Ahwazi Sunnis have
savagely entered into the houses, breaking the entrance -door and glass
of windows and severely damaged the private properties through their
arbitrary search where they were allegedly intimidated the Ahwazi women
and children of the place.
The
arrests that are invariably launched against Ahwazis do not comply with
the Declaration of Human Rights in Geneva. The Ahwazi detainees
stripped of their rights including having contact with their family or
access to a lawyer to defend them in the Iranian courts. Most of the
arrests took place during mid-night raids without any warrant by the
security forces and the Intelligence agents. As they did not take into
account the sanctity of privacy of people and brutally broke into houses
of people without any prior notice.
Ahwazi Centre for Human Right
28-02-2015
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