Mass Arrests in Ahwaz, Iran Benefits from “Military Parade Attack”
By Hossein Bouazar
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 universal obligation 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 ACHR members inside Ahwaz are as follows:
- Seyed Ghasem Mousawi
- Fazel Shamousy
- Sohrab Moghadam
- Karim Mojadam
- Mohammad Temas
- Seyed Jasem Rahmani
- Majed Cheldawi
- Seyed Hamood Rahmani
- Hatam Sawari
- Jafar Hezbawi
- Ahmad Hezbawi
- Aref Nasseri
- Esameh Temas
- Ahmad Temas
- Jasem Koroshat
- Jafar Abidawi
- Ahmad Bawi
- Ali Shajeerat
- Jemil Heidari
- Majed Heidari
- Ahmad Hemreh
- Ali Sawari
- Mostafa Sawari
- Khaled Obidawi
- Abbas Heidari
- Mortezah Yassin
- Wally Amiri
- Sadegh Heidari
- Jalal Nebhani
- Ali Sawari
- Hamdan Afrawi
- Ahmad Amin
- Shani Shamousy
- Khalil Silawi
- Fars Shamousy
- Ali Mazraeh
- Seyed Sadegh Nazary
- Sajad Silawi
- Jawad Badwi
- Samir Silawi
- Riaz Shamousy
- Jamil Silawi
- Sadegh Silawi
- Ali Heidari
- Yousef Khasraji
- Jawad Hashemi
- Alireza Drees
- Maher Masoudi
- Seyed Jalil Mousawi
- Essa Badwi
- Hadi Abdawi
- Seyed Sadegh Mousawi
- Ahmad Heidari
- Milad Afrawi
- Adel Zehiri
- Riaz Zehiri
- Farhan Shamousy
- Mohammad Amouri
- Naeem Heidari
- Aref Ghazlawi
- Kazem Ghazlawi
- Ali Al-haee
- Khaled Silawi
- Mokhtar Masoudi
- Ali Al-baji
- Mohammad Masoudi
- Jader Afrawi
- Aghil Shamousy
- Abdulah Silawi
- Abbas Badwi
- Mohsen Badwi
- Shaker Sawari
- Mahmood Doraghi
- Aziz Hamidawi
- Omid Bechari
- Noori Neisi
- Hussein Heidari
- Adnan Sawari
- Zamol Heidari
- Majed Sawari
- Ali Sawari
- Mohammad Sawari
- Ali Mazbani-Nasr
- Ahmad Kazem Koroshat
- Ramin Bechari
- Jemil Ahmadpoor
- Fahad Neisi
- Amir Afrawi
- Ali Afrawi
- Mohammad Mohammadi
- Ghasem Kaebawi
- Danial Adel
- Moosa Mazraeh
- Abdulrahim Kharaji
- Mehdi Mazraeh
- Ahmad Sweedi
- Adnan Mazraeh
- Hassan Herbawi
- Ali Sweedi
- Faez Afrawi
- Mohammad-Amin Afrawi
- Abbas Moghinami
- Mortezah bait Shekh Ahmad
- Mortezah Moghinami
- Aref Moghinami
- Mehdi Sa’adi
- Lami Shamousy
- Adel Afrawi
- Mehdi Kuti
- Ali Kuti
- Satar Kuti
- Ali Mansour
- Ali Saaki
- Abbas Saaki
- Abo Shelan Saaki
- Khazal Abbas Tamimi
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 human rights and political prisoners and stop human rights violations towards Ahwazis and other non-Persian nations, human rights and political prisoners.
Hossein Bouazar is a human rights activist from the Ahwaz region in Iran. He writes about human rights abuses committed on the Arab Ahwazi.
Date: 21/10/2018
