Release Detained Ahwazi political leaders, activists in Denmark, the Netherlands Alliance of human rights organizations to support the Arab people of Ahwaz expresses its grave concern regarding the arrest of four leaders of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz in Denmark and the Netherlands last Monday. The alliance calls on the authorities in Denmark and the Netherlands to respect the rights of the Ahwazi people as it struggles peacefully to obtain its legal and
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On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the Iranian regime authorities kidnap an Ahwazi woman As the world is marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Iranian regime authorities have abducted a woman named Leila Shawardi from her home in Fallehiyeh. The arrest came without an arrest warrant. Credible sources from the city of Fallehiyeh said that the Iranian regime forces arrested on Monday November 25 a woman named Leila Shawar
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Iranian teacher beats, racially abuses nine-year-old Ahwazi boy A nine-year-old Ahwazi Arab boy was reportedly beaten with a thick plastic rod and abused by an Iranian Physical Education teacher at his school for playing football with friends without his football kit on. The blows were so severe that they left bruises and marks on the child’s body. The teacher, identified as Naeem Zadeh, beat the boy, a sixth-grade pupil in his class in the Shaheed Ayat elementary school in the S
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AODHR Calls on Human Rights Bodies to Protect Ahwazi Detainees in Iranian Regime’s Prisons The Iranian regime continues its heinous abuses against the Ahwazi detainees in its notorious prisons, which lack the minimum necessities of life, in addition to the brutal and physical torture and medical negligence that have claimed hundreds of lives. Recently, the Ahwazi Organization for the Defence of Human Rights “AODHR” has received worrying information that Ahwazi detainee Yusuf Mahd
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Human Rights Group Strongly Condemns the "Unjust" Execution of Ahwazi Detainees The Ahwazi Organization for the Defence of Human Rights "AODHR" condemned the Iranian regime's execution of two Ahwazi detainees on charges extracted under torture. The organization confirmed that the Iranian regime's intelligence informed their relatives of carrying out the executions this morning, while arresting the brothers of the detainees and taking them to an unknown place. According to the
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Effective Contributions of AODHR in Geneva On the sidelines of the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Ahwazi Organization for the Defence of Human Rights "AODHR" acted to shed light on the crimes and gross violations committed by the Iranian regime in the field of human rights In the course of our relentless efforts to shed light on the violations and crimes against the human rights in Ahwaz, the organization held a symposium on crimes against non- Persian peoples, par
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Methadone Zombies in the Prisons of Ahwaz A serialised memoir by former Ahwazi political prisoner Ghazi Mazhar We’re all familiar, mostly from horror movies, with the legend of zombies, the ‘living
Iran's prison abuses are meant to break Ahwazi resistance The infamous Sheyban Prison, long known by Ahwazis as an Orwellian torture centre, is nowadays officially called Ahwaz Central Prison.
AODHR Calls for Immediate Action to Protect Poets and Artists from the Oppression of the Iranian Regime "Art is a message, not a crime" .. At a time when all institutions, regimes and sta
