تظاهر جمع من أبناء جالية الشعب العربي الأحوازي في بريطانيا تنديدا بأحكام الإعدام التي صدرت بحق تسعة من أبناء الأحواز البررة و سياسات الإجرامية التي تمارسها السلطات الإيرانية بحق الشعب العربي الأحوازي وذلك في يوم الأربعاء الموافق للحادي و العشرين من شهر تشرين الأول الحالي. جاءت هذه المظاهرة تلبية لدعوة الجالية الأحوازية في بريطانيا و بمشاركة التنظيمات الأحوازية الناشطة في بريطانيا, بعد صدور النظام الإيراني عدد من أحكام الإعدام و الإعتقالات الواسعة التي يتعرض لها أبناء الأحواز العربية.
هتف المتظاهرون بهتافات وطنية و إنسانية مطالبين منظمة العفو الدولي و مؤسسات حقوق الإنسان للتحرك العاجل و إنقاذ أرواح المحكومين بالإعدام و الضغط على النظام الإيراني للكف عن جرائمه المنظمة التي تستهدف الكيان الأحوازي و هويته و روحه التي لا تقبل الخنوع و الاستسلام. و توافد الأحوازيون إلى المظاهرة من مدن بريطانيا مختلفة إضافة على الحضور النشط للمقيمين في لندن, كما حضر ممثلا عن حزب استقلال أذربيجان الجنوبية و عبر بحضوره و كلماته عن تضامن حزب استقلال أذربيجان مع الشعب العربي الأحوازي و ما يعانيه من جرائم و سياسات عدوانية.
و في نهاية المظاهرة و بموعد مسبق سلم وفدا من المتظاهرين رسالتهم إلى مسئول مكتب منظمة العفو الدولي و شرحوا أهداف المظاهرة و ما يعاني شعبنا جراء جرائم سلطات الاحتلال الإيراني بحق الشعب العربي في الأحواز. و وعد مسئول منظمة العفو الدولي في لندن بان يتحركوا و يفعلوا ما يستطيعون فعله من اجل إنقاذ الأحوازيين المحكومين بالإعدام. و في اليوم التالي أي يوم الثاني و العشرين من شهر تشرين الأول و وفاءا بما وعدوا المتظاهرين به, أصدرت منظمة العفو الدولي نداءا عاجلا إلى النظام الإيراني و إلى كل من يعنيه الأمر و طالبت بإيقاف أحكام الإعدام و ذلك ثمرة لجهود كثير الأحوازيين خاصة الذين حضروا المظاهرة و الاتصالات التي سبقت المظاهرة من قبل بعض الأحوازيين من دول مختلفة في هذا الخصوص.
هذه الرسالة التي قدمه الوفد ممثلا المتظاهرين إلى منظمة العفو الدولي في لندن
Urgent Appeal to Amnesty International
Stop Iran’s eminent execution of Nine Ahwazi Arabs prisoners
21 October 2009
For over 80 years, Iran has persecuted, abused, impoverished and demeaned the Ahwazi people with impunity in defiance of International Law and fundamental human rights. Ahwazi Arabs are being discriminated upon in the domain of adequate housing, land confiscation, state employment, water sanitation and face restrictions over freedom of cultural, political and linguistic expressions.
Since 2005 Al- Ahwaz Intifada, massive protests took place in Al-Ahwaz against a letter written by Mohammed Ali Abtahi an advisor of Khatami in 1999 stating governmental plans to reduce the percentage of the when Al-Ahwaz population of Ahwazis by relocating ethnic Persian and more Iranization of names of street and public spaces. This letter sparked a strong uprising from the Ahwazis in several anti-governmental protests, leading to mass arrests from the authority and a complete media blackout.
In a new wave of executions, the Iranian regime is planning the imminent execution of 9 innocent Arab human rights activists. They were charged with assassination in June 2007 of Shiite radical pro-regime cleric Hesham Saimari and sentenced to death in October 2009 after secret trials without the presence of lawyers and fair and public hearing.
We beseech and call upon International Amnesty, other human rights organisations and the conscience of all free people in the world, those who truly seek peace, justice and respect for the equal dignity of every human to act immediately and efficiently and put an end to politically and racially motivated executions and exhort the Iranian authorities to end these brutal mass killings.
Background:
Al-Ahwaz is strategically situated at the tip of the Arabian Gulf and the Shat al-Arab waterway and home to more than 8 million Arabs. It was an autonomous Arab territory until 1925 when it was occupied by Iran. Since 1925, Al-Ahwaz has been under tight Iranian control.
85-90% of Iranian GDP comes from Al-Ahwaz which has reserves of over 40 billion barrels of oil and 210 billion cubic meters of natural gas. It is the second largest oil and gas reserves in the world. Iran refuses to spent %1 of it in Al-Ahwaz.
For 84 years under the framework of organized government plans, Iran has been oppressing Ahwazis, violating basic human rights More.., detaining women and children, and expropriating farmlands for the newly constructed settlements.
In April 2005 alone Ahwazis had their human rights were extensively violated as 131 activists were executed and thousands were arrested in large and undiscriminating detention campaigns.
Teaching Arabic in Al- Ahwazis banned, the study of Farsi is compulsory in every school, which is a part of a broader Iranization policy. This process is causing an approximate 30% drop-out rate from primary schools, 50% out of secondary schools, and 70% out of high school.
Arabs’ Land confiscation is common policy by Iran’s successive government. Government forced many Arab farmers to leave their land without compensations. Those land then used for new towns and industrial area employed by non indigenous Arabs.
Indigenous Ahwazi Arabs are facing land confiscation every year. In recent years Iran has stepped up settlement for Persians by building new towns such as Ramin, Shirin shahr and Hore Ryahi providing them with better facilities such as electricity, gas, and healthy Water than old cities of Arab indigenous. Allocating Arab lands to revolution guard personnel in cities such as Khafajia and Mohammara is a phenomenon that has increased alarmingly since 1988.
Despite its huge water resources the region is suffering from a water crisis due to deliberate discharge of untreated urban wastewater and industrial effluent, the drainage from agricultural lands, and the uncontrolled discharge of solid wastes directly into rivers such as Karun River and its tributaries have considerably degraded the water quality of the river. Quality of the drinking water and irrigation water is poor due to an inadequate sewage system and industrial contamination. This problem is exacerbated by the diversion of water out of Al-Ahwaz to Iran’s northern cities and the sale of Ahwaz's water to the Gulf States. As result many Ahwazis suffer from kidney infections or failure.
Since 1925, Iran has changed or perverted names of towns, cities and local names into Persians in order to wipe out the Arab heritage and Iranize the region. In 1936 Reza Pahlavi changed the name of Arabistan (as it is also called by Ahwzis) to Khuzestan. More recently Iran uses perverted spelling of Ahvaz instead of Ahwaz as its new attempt to wipe out Arabic name.
Unemployment is high and above national average in Al-Ahwaz due to Employment Criteria (Gozinesh) which effectively controls Arabs access to employment on grounds of their race and political opinion.
Ahwazi demands for basic human rights have been labelled as separatist, agents for foreign countries, enemies of God or danger to security and territorial integrity.
In these dangerous and difficult days and hours the undersigned and protesters call upon the International Amnesty and its peace and justice seeker supporters to demand an immediate halt of execution of following and all Ahwazi innocent prisoners:
1. Ali Saedi son of Qasim, 25 year-old
2. Walid Naisi (23), son of Saeed
3. Da’ier Mahawi (50), son of Karim
4. Maher Mahawi (21), Son of Da’ier
5. Majid Faradipour (26), son of Hameed
6. Yusof Laftapour (26)
7. Ahmed Saedi (28), son of Hussein
8. Khalil Karamulla Kaab
9. Saeed Saeedi, son of Rahim
Ahwazis in Greater London, Britain and EU
إليكم النداء العاجل الذي صدر من قبل منظمة العفو الدولي بحق الأحوازيين المحكومين بالإعدام
Thursday, 22 October 2009
amnesty: Seven men, members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, are at risk of imminent execution in Ahvaz city,
URGENT ACTION
Seven men, members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, are at risk of imminent execution in Ahvaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province. They were convicted in an unfair trial of “acting against national security” and killing male Shi’a cleric Sheikh Hesam al-Sameyri in June 2007.
Twenty-five year old Ali Saedi, Walid Naisi, aged 23, Majid Fardipour (name in Arabic: Majid Mahawi), aged 26, Doayr Mahawi, aged 50 and his son Maher Mahawi, aged 21, Ahmad Saedi, aged 28, and Yousuf Leftehpour, aged 25, were arrested on or around 12 August 2007. They were held incommunicado for between three and 15 months in an unknown location by the intelligence services, prior to being transferred to Karoun Prison in Ahvaz city, in the south-west of the country, where they are now held. Torture in intelligence service premises throughout Iran is common, and it is feared these men may have been tortured, possibly in order to extract “confessions”.
The men, some of whom were known political activists within the Ahwazi Arab community, were sentenced to death by a branch of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz on or around 30 September 2009, in an unfair trial in which they had no access to a lawyer. Two other men were sentenced to prison terms.
Iranian sources fear that these executions may take place shortly.
PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY in Persian, Arabic, English, French or your own language:
n Urge the Iranian authorities not to execute Ali Saedi, Walid Naisi, Majid Fardipour, Doayr Mahawi, Maher Mahawi, Ahmad Saedi, and Yousuf Leftehpour, and to commute their death sentences;
n Expressing concern that they were tried unfairly and had no access to a lawyer, and reminding the authorities of the need to strictly adhere to fair trial guarantees in death penalty cases;
n Urging the authorities to order a moratorium on executions in Iran as a first step towards ending the use of the death penalty.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 02 DECEMBER 2009 TO:
Head of the Judiciary
Ayatollah Sadeqh Larijani, Office of the Head of the Judiciary, Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave. south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: Via website: http://www.dadiran.ir/tabid/
Salutation: Your Excellency
Governor
Sayed Ja’far Hejazi
Khuzestan Governor’s office
Palestine Avenue, Imanieh
Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: +98-611-3367313
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Salutation: Dear Sir
And copies to:
Director, Human Rights Headquarters of Iran
His Excellency Mohammad Javad Larijani
Bureau of International Affairs, Office of the Head of the Judiciary, Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave. south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Fax: + 98 21 5 537 8827 (please keep trying
Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.
URGENT ACTION
Seven men at risk of execution in iran
ADditional Information
Ahwazi Arabs, who are one of Iran’s many ethnic minorities, live mainly in Khuzestan province in the south-west of the country. Khuzestan province, which borders Iraq, is strategically important because it is the site of much of Iran’s oil reserves. Historically, the Arab minority has been marginalized and it continues to suffer from discrimination in the enjoyment of economic and cultural rights. The Arab population does not feel it has benefited as much from the oil revenue as the Persian population.
Although mainly Shi’a Muslims, some Ahwazi Arabs have converted to Sunnism, leading the authorities to accuse some local activists of being “Wahhabis”, (meaning extreme fundamentalist Sunni Muslims). There were mass demonstrations in Khuzestan province in April 2005, after it was alleged that the government planned to disperse the country's Arab population or to force them to relinquish their Arab identity and tension has remained high since. Following bomb explosions in Ahvaz City in June and October 2005, which killed at least 14 people, and explosions at oil installations in September and October 2005, the cycle of violence intensified, with hundreds of people reportedly arrested. There have been reports of torture. Further bombings on 24 January 2006, in which at least six people were killed, were followed by further mass arbitrary arrests. At least 15 men have been executed as a result of their alleged involvement in the bombings. It is not clear if another man was executed or died in custody.
Kuwaiti-born Sheikh Hesam al-Sameyri, who was the Shi’a Imam of the Zahra’ mosque in the mainly Arab-populated Hayy al-Thawra district of Ahvaz city, was known for his anti-Sunni views. He was killed by two gunmen who came to his home at 10pm on 24 June 2007. No group claimed responsibility for his killing and sources have suggested that his death was the result of a family dispute.
On 21 August 2007, provincial television reported that the Ministry of Intelligence had stated that six [sic] people who were members of "a terrorist group promoting separatism and sectarianism”, had been arrested in Khuzestan in connection with the killing. In September 2008, a bail order of 800 million rials (US$800,000) was ordered for at least two of those detained: Doayr Mohawi and his son Maher, but their family was unable to pay this amount, so they remained in detention.
Amnesty International recognizes the rights and responsibilities of governments to maintain law and order, and to bring to justice those suspected of recognizably criminal offences, but opposes the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment
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