Iran: Halt Execution of Arab Minority Men

(Beirut) – Iran’s judiciary should stop the executions of four

members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority because of grave violations of due process, Amnesty International, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and Human Rights Watch said today. The judiciary should order a new trial according to international fair trial standards in which the death penalty is not an option. Family members and Ahwazi Arab rights activists have told human rights groups that the detainees contacted their families on July 16, 2013 and said they feared that authorities were planning to carry out the execution orders any day now.

Supreme Court Upholds Execution Sentence for Four Ahvazis

With the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentences of four young Arab men from Ahvaz on charges of “moharebeh” (enmity with God) and “corruption on earth,” the prisoners are currently in danger of imminent execution at Karoon Prison in Ahvaz.

Iran prepares to execute four human rights activist

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 Ghazi Abbasi (31), Shehab Abbasi (27), Abdulameer Majdami (33) and Abdulreda Khanafra (26) were all arrested based on unpublished Iranian Intelligence reports according to which the activists are ‘waging war against God and spreading corruption’.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

Is Ahwaz entitled to self-determination?

 The aim of this article is to figure out whether Ahwaz can be

qualified to self -determination under the international law.

The execution of Ahwazi intellectuals is an obvious phenomenon of national genocide committing by Iran

 When we look carefully at the history of Ahwazi Arab people of repression, violence and capital punishment we will find out that they have a bitter prolong experience of systematic crackdown in decades.
Meanwhile the execution of Ahwazian intellectuals  historically have always inflected an irreparable blow to the liberty movement of this occupied nation which is struggling to gain its fundamental rights of self- determination for years. The executions of early leaders of Arabistan liberty movement in 1963 ,the repressive policies of Islamic republic of Iran against Ahwazi people in every aspects of their life, and the tragic bloody massacre of Almuhammerah city in 1979, and the harsh crackdown of popular uprising in 2005 are vivid evidences  that the intellectuals Ahwazian figures and the political class of this nation repeatedly have been targeted by prison ,repression and execution.
The biggest popular uprising of Ahwazi people broke out on 9 April 2005 when people from different cities turned out into the streets and protested against the distribution of circular (petition) attributed to Mohammad Ali Abtahi ,former vice president parliamentary legal affairs of the president Mohammad Ali Khatami

Execution sentence is the Iran”s last resort to liquidate Alahwazian prisoners

Since the popular uprising broke out in Alahwaz in 2005, the

Iranian regime began to conduct  a systematic liquidation of Ahwazian prisoners by deploying death Sentence as last resort to suffocate the Ahwazian voices.

When the Iranian regime perceived that its agenda has been failed to put out the peaceful resistance of Alahwazian people the Iranian authorities by the help of their deeply flawed criminal justice system began to prioritize the death penalty of Alahwzian prisoners ,amid warnings from the human rights organizations and the amnesty international organization .

A LETTER FROMPRISON WRTITTEN BY HASHEM SHABBANI THE AHWAZIAN PRISONER

The Ahwazian cultural and intellectual activist, Hashem Shabani has revealed a humanitarian appeal

from Karoon prisonthat is addressed to all human rights organizations and the amnesty international organization highlighting the fact that the whole accusationswhich flung out on him and his mates are fully fabricated by the Iranian intelligence service which is now playing with the lives of our best highly educated youths through accusing them with vague accusations to bring them to the gallows rope.

In his letter which is written in Arabic by his own handwriting, he describesthe imposed charges on himself and his cellmates are really cruel and unfair. He starts his desperate appeal as follow:

To those whom concern about human rights

Dear sisters and brothers:

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U.N. protests Israeli military flights over Lebanon

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