Mass Arrests (160 names) in Ahwaz, Continuous!

Iran is taking advantage of the attack to unite the ranks behind the besieged regime, but they have bigger worry than a single armed operation in Ahwaz as the incident is just another terror attack done by the Iranian regime.

Iranian regime fears a scarier nightmare, and this nightmare threatens Iranian regime’s existence. Nikki Haley told Iran after the attack: “Look in the mirror”, meaning the violence that happened in Ahwaz resembles it. Violence brings violence and the Iranian authorities are the ones that fund it and support it in Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and other areas.

But the Ahwazis are paying a high price for the attack. Iranian regime continuous their systematic crack down on Ahwazi Arabs, continuously spreading fear among Ahwazis. Iran under the universalobligation must treat its own people fairly but are they following that? bearing in mind that the Iranian regime harass/arrests/torture and execute people for their political/cultural and environmental activities.

Even though Ahwaz region accounts for 90% of Iran’s Gross domestic product, standing as the backbone of Iran’s economy. But it is one of most underdeveloped borders in the world’s most polluted areas. Our sources in Ahwaz said around 400 people were arrested.

So, the arrestees include civil, cultural, religious, human rights and political activists.But the issue has gone further, and in some cases, children and women have been detained by detainees as hostages. Some of the detainees have been transferred to Tehran. Meanwhile, no one dares to inquire about courts or security forces departments because they are terrified that they may get arrested.

The security forces seem to do whatever they want with the Ahwazi Arab people as they can blame them with the “Military parade attack” label. They try to eradicate any kind of independent cultural and civil activity in the province by creating a climate of terror and imprisonment/torture and execution.

The names of some of the detainees who have been identified by Ahwazi activists inside Ahwaz are as follows:

1. Riaz Shamousi

2. Ali Heidari

3. Yousef Khasraji

4. Jawad Hashemi

5. Ali-reza Dris

6. Maher Masoudi

7. Riaz Zehiri

8. Khalid Silawi

9. Mokhtar Masoudi

10. Ali Albaji

11. Mohammad Masoudi

12. Jader Afrawi

13. Aghil Shamousi

14. Seyed Jalil Mousawi

15. Essa Badwi

16. Hadi Abdawi

17. Seyed Sadegh Mousawi

18. Ahmad Heidari

19. Milad Afrawi

20. Adel Zehiri

21. Abdulah Silawi

22. Abbas Badwi

23. Mousa Mazraeh

24. Rashid Koroshat

25. Hakim Koroshat

26. Ms Zuddieh Afrawi

27. Qaisiyah Afrawi

28. Jawad Mohanapour

29. Ali Moghinami

30. Hussein Hamoodi

31. Yahia Hamoodi

32. Naji Kaabi

33. Yahia Kaabi

34. Azim Shawordi

35. Ebrahim Shawordi

36. Khaled Albu Khenfereh

37. Ahmad Shawordi

38. Mehdi Shawordi

39. Adnan Khanafereh

40. Moslem Faraj-allah

41. Anwar Ashoori

42. Mohammad-reza Jalali

43. Rahim Amin-poor

44. Mehdi Obidawi

45. Mostafa Jalali

46. Loghman Shorfi

47. Yousef Marawneh

48. Abdulah Hayati

49. Nader Hayati

50. Mostafa Basiri

51. Kazem Sayahi

52. Mansour Asakereh

53. Yahiah Obidawi

54. Ghasem Obidawi

55. Jafar Obidawi

56. Hassan Bit-Saeed

57. Adel Zabee

58. Ali Obidawi

59. Aref Abiat

60. Mohsen Badwi

61. Farhan Shamousi

62. Mohammad Amouri

63. Naeem Heidari

64. Aref Ghazlawi

65. Kazem Ghazlawi

66. Ali Alhaee

67. Ahmad Amin

68. Sajad Silawi

69. Seyed Sadegh-Zadeh

70. Jawad Badwi

71. Shany Shamousi

72. Khalil Silawi

73. Jamil Silawi

74. Fares Shamousi

75. Sadegh Silawi

76. Ali Mazraeh

77. Samir Silawi

78. Shaker Sawari

79. Seyed Ghazem Mousawi

80. Fazel Shamousi

81. Sohrab Moghdem

82. Karim Mojdem

83. Jafar Hezbawi

84. Ahmad Hezbawi

85. Aref Nasseri

86. Esameh Teimas

87. Ahmad Teimas

88. Mohammad Teimas

89. Seyed Jasem Rahmani

90. Majed Cheldawi

91. Seyed Mahmood Rahmani

92. Hatam Sawari

93. Jasem Koroshawi

94. Noori Neisi

95. Hussein Heidari

96. Adnan Sawari

97. Mohammad Heidari

98. Majed Sawari

99. Ali Sawari

100. Mohammad Mohammadi

101. Ghasem Kaabi

102. Mehdi Saedi

103. Lami Shamousi

104. Adel Afrawi

105. Mehdi Kooty

106. Ali Kooty

107. Satar Kooty

108. Ali Mansouri

109. Ali Saki

110. Abbas Saki

111. Abo-Shelan Saki

112. Khazal Abbas Al-tamimi

113. Ali Sawari

114. Mostafa Sawari

115. Khaled Obidawi

116. Abbas Heidari

117. Morteza Amiri

118. Yasin Amiri

119. Sadegh Heidari

120. Jalal Nebhani

121. Khaled Hezbawi

122. Mohammad Hezbawi

123. Reza Betrani

124. Taregh Amiri

125. Jemal Mojadam

126. Mehdi Mazraeh

127. Ali Mazraeh

128. Mohammad Sawari

129. Ali Sawari

130. Ahmad Kazem

131. Jafar Abidawi

132. Ahmad Bawi

133. Ali Shajirat

134. Mahmood Doraghi

135. Aziz Hamidawi

136. Omid Bechari

137. Ramin Bechari

138. Jamil Ahmad-poor

139. Fahad Neisi

140. Jamil Heidari

141. Majed Heidari

142. Ahmad Hamry

143. Ali Sawari

144. Danial Adel

145. Mousa Mazraeh

146. Abdulrahman Khasraji

147. Mehdi Mazraeh

148. Ahmad Sweedi

149. Adnan Mazraeh

150. Ms Lamia Hamadi

151. Hassan Hezbawi

152. Ali Sweedi

153. Faeez Afrawi

154. Mohammad Amin Afrawi

155. Abbas Moghinami

156. Morteza Bitshikh

157. Morteza Moghinami

158. Aref Moghinami

159. Hamdan Afrawi

160. Amir Afrawi

161. Ali Afrawi

We, Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights are calling on all human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the European Parliament to address the situation of Ahwazi Arabs prisoners and put an end to torturing political prisoners and stop human rights violations towards Ahwazis and other non-Persian nations, human rights and political prisoners in geographic so called Iran.

Hossein Bouazar is a human rights activist from the Ahwaz region in Iran. He writes about human rights abuses committed on the Arab Ahwazi.

Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights

Date: 29/10/2018