Articles by: Rahim Hamid

IRGC forces reportedly kill an Ahwazi farmer protesting against forced eviction

IRGC forces reportedly kill an Ahwazi farmer protesting against forced eviction

Iranian regime forces reportedly killed one Ahwazi farmer and injured 11 other people, including elderly people and women, in retaliation for the victims’ refusal to abandon their homes and lands when the IRGC told them that the regime would be diverting the floodwaters from the current massive flooding afflicting the region in southwestern Iran onto their farmlands in order to[Read More…]

by 03/04/2019 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
Ahwaz sees massive surge in arrests as crackdown widens

Ahwaz sees massive surge in arrests as crackdown widens

Iran is witnessing a massive surge in human rights abuses of all types. These include extrajudicial killings, arrests, torture; crackdowns on journalists, intellectuals, activists and human rights advocates, repression of student movements, and persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.  Amongst those arrested are female activists and elderly people, including individuals with no involvement in any sort of activism, who apparently[Read More…]

by 25/10/2018 1 comment Human Rights
Another Ahwazi prisoner tortured to death in prison

Another Ahwazi prisoner tortured to death in prison

Reports emerged on Wednesday that another Ahwazi Arab prisoner in Iran has died under torture in a regime prison, with horrific video footage showing marks left by torture all over his body after it was returned to his family.  Adding insult to injury, prison personnel warned the dead man’s family that they should not treat their loved one as a[Read More…]

by 31/03/2018 1 comment Human Rights
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Erasing Arab Identity: Iran Demolishes More Historical Sites In Ahwaz

  In January 2018, the Iranian regime ordered the demolition of another cherished artefact of Ahwazi heritage in the occupied Arab region of Ahwaz. Ahwazi activists reportedthat regime authorities ignored petitions submitted by local residents pleading with them not to destroy the 98-year-old cinema in Dar Khwain city to the west of the regional capital, with regime security forces, assisted[Read More…]

by 12/02/2018 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
Two Journalists Face Trial In Ahwaz For Criticizing Education Officials 

Two Journalists Face Trial In Ahwaz For Criticizing Education Officials 

Two journalists in the Arab region of Ahwaz in Iran have been summoned to appear in a regime court after they condemned the deteriorating standards of education in the region, which are the worst in the country. The journalists, NaimHamidi and Sayed Nashan Al-Boshawka, both wrote articles criticizing the performance of the education directorate in Ahwaz, condemning the terrible conditions[Read More…]

by 10/02/2018 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
Negligence: The Iran Regime’s Passive Weapon To Eradicate Ahwazis

Negligence: The Iran Regime’s Passive Weapon To Eradicate Ahwazis

Since seizing power in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Iran’s theocratic regime has worked  tirelessly to effectively make the Ahwazi Arab population ‘non-people’ and eradicate their history, culture and existence.   This is achieved through what are effectively apartheid policies of racial discrimination, importing large numbers of ‘superior’ ethnically Persian settlers to the region; these policies are, of course, familiar,[Read More…]

by 04/02/2018 1 comment Human Rights
Ahwazis Protest Over Iran Regime’s Land, Water Theft

Ahwazis Protest Over Iran Regime’s Land, Water Theft

For the second week in a row, Ahwazi demonstrators poured into the streets across the Arab region of south-western Iran earlier this week to protest against the endemic abuse and injustice they are subjected to by the Iranian regime. The regime’s  worsening repression comes despite repeated warnings by officials over the devastating effects of its current policies of deprivation, land-theft[Read More…]

by 17/12/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Outrage Over Brutal Assaults On Ahwazi Women Protesting Against Regime Land Theft

Outrage Over Brutal Assaults On Ahwazi Women Protesting Against Regime Land Theft

  Iranian regime security forces brutally assaulted defenseless Ahwazi Arab women protesting against the regime’s illegitimate confiscation of their families’ farmlands earlier this week, arresting many of the women whose only ‘crime’ was to demand justice.  The regime military personnel reportedly deliberately hit the women in the mouths and chests with batons and rifle butts. The regime forces’ horrific attacks[Read More…]

by 08/12/2017 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
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100 Freedom Activists Call For Investigation Of Ahmed Mola’s Assassination

Ahwazi Arab political activist Ahmed Mola – Press Photo More than 100 Ahwazi Arab, regional and international freedom activists and writers have called for an inquiry into the assassination of distinguished Ahwazi leader and political right activist Ahmed Mola, who was assassinated in The Hague on November 8th.  The Iranian regime, which had threatened Mola on a number of occasions[Read More…]

by 01/12/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Ahwazi Activists Cling To Hope As Iranian Regime Persecution Worsens

Ahwazi Activists Cling To Hope As Iranian Regime Persecution Worsens

  Ahwazi Arab activists incarcerated in Iran’s infamous prisons are facing all forms of torture, persecution, and oppression at the hands of prison staff in punishment for supporting freedom, according to reports smuggled out. The Iranian regime has been launching crackdowns even more brutal than usual against activists in the region and across Iran, fearing an uprising, with the people[Read More…]

by 30/11/2017 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
Iran’s Apartheid Policies Destroy Ahwazi People And Environment

Iran’s Apartheid Policies Destroy Ahwazi People And Environment

  A new wave of dust storms has hit the cities of Ahwaz in the south and south west of the country, a phenomenon to which the Ahwazi people have become accustomed. Dust storms have become commonplace in throughout Ahwaz region. According to the IRNA news agency, hospitals and health centers in Ahwaz capital received more than 300 cases of[Read More…]

by 26/11/2017 1 comment Environmental Protection
Prominent Ahwazi Activist Killed In The Hague

Prominent Ahwazi Activist Killed In The Hague

The distinguished Ahwazi Arab political activist, Ahmad Mola, was brutally murdered outside his home in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Although some reports claim that the killers were apprehended, there has been no official confirmation, with other reports suggesting that they escaped. Fifty-four-year-old Mola, who is survived by his wife and five children, fled Iran with his family in 2005 in[Read More…]

by 09/11/2017 Comments are Disabled Human Rights
Brutality Against Ahwazi Prisoners In Iranian Jails

Brutality Against Ahwazi Prisoners In Iranian Jails

Unimaginable brutality in Iranian regime’s prisons unveiled by an escaped Ahwazi political prisoner Ghazi Haidari is drowning in his own blood.  The prominent Ahwazi  writer, historian and activist from Arab Ahwaz region in the south and south-west of  Iran was imprisoned and brutally tortured by the regime there for the ‘crime’ of human rights advocacy. Although he managed to escape[Read More…]

by 08/11/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Ahwazi community in Berlin protest EU’s silence on ongoing human rights abuses in  Ahwaz

Ahwazi community in Berlin protest EU’s silence on ongoing human rights abuses in Ahwaz

On Friday, October 20, a mass demonstration organized by Europe’s Ahwazi community took place in Berlin, Germany. This protest entitled “we will not forget about you” demanded that the German government, headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, intervene immediately regarding Iran’s increasingly oppressive human rights violations against the Arab people of occupied Ahwaz. The demonstrators consisted of Ahwazi Arab diaspora and[Read More…]

by 21/10/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Habib Jaber the head of the Arab struggle for the liberation of Ahwaz

Interview With The Leader Of The Arab Struggle Movement For The Liberation of Ahwaz

Habib Jaber, the head of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, has been interviewed on the Saudi TV station “alekhbariya” where he spoke about the movement, its struggle, and the future vision for it, and the Iranian regime. _____________________________ Between revolution and reformation, there is always an unstable period of time where the direction of the movement[Read More…]

by 13/10/2017 2 comments Human Rights
 Iranian Security Forces Intensify Demolishing Ahwazi Arabs Citizens’ Homes

 Iranian Security Forces Intensify Demolishing Ahwazi Arabs Citizens’ Homes

Members of an Ahwazi Arab family were arrested after Iranian security forces beat them and ransacked their home. On July 11, 2017, human rights activists in Arab Ahwaz region in the south and south west of Iran  reported that Iranian security forces arrested an Ahwazi Arab woman, Zahra Sawari, and two of her sons, Mohammad Sawari and Ali Sawari, after[Read More…]

by 13/07/2017 1 comment Human Rights
More Than 30 Arrested As Freedom Protests Sweep Across Arab Ahwaz Region In Iran

More Than 30 Arrested As Freedom Protests Sweep Across Arab Ahwaz Region In Iran

  More than 30 people were brutally arrested in Ahwaz in Iran on Monday, the second day of Eid al-Fitr, after courageous Ahwazi Arabs held peaceful demonstrations in towns, cities, and villages across the region, demanding freedom and human rights and protesting against the systemic oppression and injustice which generations of Ahwazis have now endured under successive regimes for 92[Read More…]

by 27/06/2017 1 comment World
British Media Are Siding With Iranian Regime To Undermine Ahwazi Arabs’ Struggle For Freedom

British Media Are Siding With Iranian Regime To Undermine Ahwazi Arabs’ Struggle For Freedom

  Recently we have seen the mainstream media in the UK, supplemented by the film industry, undermine the struggle of an already oppressed people, the Ahwazi Arabs, by making a film about their plight, but wrongly labelling it ‘terrorism’.  There was no coverage of the human rights violations which have been perpetrated upon them by the Iranian regime, nor the[Read More…]

by 23/05/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Iran’s Elections: An Empty Charade for Ethnic Minorities

Iran’s Elections: An Empty Charade for Ethnic Minorities

With the Iranian presidential election scheduled to take place on Friday, May 19, the six candidates are competing for every vote, with all vying to win the essential backing of the country’s ethnic minority regions, whose peoples collectively comprise over 50 percent of the Iranian population.   All six candidates – Hassan Rouhani, Ibrahim Raisi, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, IssaqJahangiri, Mustapha Hashmi[Read More…]

by 12/05/2017 1 comment Human Rights, World
epa05919710 Demonstrators hold flags of the region of Al-Ahwaz as they take part in a rally in support of the Ahwazi minority in Iran, in Berlin, Germany, 21 April 2017. Dozens of demonstrators took part in the march striving for the recognition of this minority and their human rights. The Ahwazi live within the Iranian province of Khuzestan and constitute an ethnic, linguistic and cultural minority in Iran.  EPA/FELIPE TRUEBA

Ahwazi Exiles Hold Four Massive Freedom Rallies in London, The Hague, Canberra, And Berlin

 Demonstrators hold flags of the region of Al-Ahwaz as they take part in a rally in support of the Ahwazi people in Iran, in Berlin, Germany, 21 April 2017. Dozens of demonstrators took part in the march striving for the recognition of this population and their human rights. Ahwazi exiles marked important anniversaries in the state’s history during the past[Read More…]

by 22/04/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Iranian Militia Shoots Disabled Activist Dead In His Home In Front Of His Children

Iranian Militia Shoots Disabled Activist Dead In His Home In Front Of His Children

Iranian regime militia shot an unarmed wheelchair-bound disabled Ahwazi activist dead in front of his wife and children in their home, apparently “revenge” for his civil rights activism. The armed group belonging to the Basiji (also known as Sāzmān-e Basij-e Mostaz’afin), one of the five forces of the ‘Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution’, stormed into 39-year-old Saeed[Read More…]

by 04/04/2017 1 comment Human Rights
The World’s Silent Complicity In Iranian Apartheid Against Ahwazi People

The World’s Silent Complicity In Iranian Apartheid Against Ahwazi People

  This article presents a brief history of Al-Ahwaz. It highlights the sufferings of the Ahwazi Arab people under the Iranian occupation, and offers an introduction to the contemporary history of the Ahwaz struggle for liberation and the fight to regain independence stolen by Iran in 1925. For too long, Ahwazi Arabs have suffered in silence, the ultimate invisible victims.[Read More…]

by 20/03/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Ahwazi Activist, Denied Asylum In Netherlands, Gets Six Year Sentence For Campaigning For Freedom

Ahwazi Activist, Denied Asylum In Netherlands, Gets Six Year Sentence For Campaigning For Freedom

  An Ahwazi human rights activist who was denied asylum in the Netherlands and forced to return to Iran after fleeing Iranian regime persecution was sentenced on Friday to six years imprisonment in an Iranian court for the ‘crime’ of attending protests calling for freedom.  According to reports, he was savagely tortured during his detention to force him into signing[Read More…]

by 05/03/2017 2 comments Human Rights
Hundreds of Ahwazis demonstrate in Brussels against Iranian regime’s crimes

Hundreds of Ahwazis demonstrate in Brussels against Iranian regime’s crimes

Hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs led a demonstration in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday in solidarity with the Arab people of Ahwaz currently experiencing the worst brutality to date in another crackdown by the Iranian regime. The protesters, originally from the Arab Ahwaz region, which has been brutally occupied by successive Iranian regimes for almost a[Read More…]

by 24/02/2017 1 comment Human Rights
Ahwazi Sports Champ Offers To Sell Kidney For Mother’s Treatment

Ahwazi Sports Champ Offers To Sell Kidney For Mother’s Treatment

According to a shocking report circulated widely on social media and Iranian news websites, a prominent Ahwazi martial arts champion has offered to sell one of his kidneys due to poverty and unemployment. Adnan Amiri, who has won kickboxing trophies both in Iran itself and competing for the country internationally, said that he feels driven to the desperate measure since[Read More…]

by 18/11/2016 2 comments Human Rights
Iran Launches Multiple Oil Projects In Ahwaz While Ahwazis Sink In Poverty

Iran Launches Multiple Oil Projects In Ahwaz While Ahwazis Sink In Poverty

Young unemployed people of Ahwaz have protested against widespread poverty and disenfranchisement during President Hassan Rouhani’s recent visit to oil facilities in Howeyzeh, west of Ahwaz, on 13th November.   The demonstrators, who came from the neighboring villages around the giant oil facilities, held up banners with slogans denouncing the heinous practices of confiscation of agricultural lands for the benefit of[Read More…]

by 15/11/2016 5 comments Human Rights
Ahwazi Student Beaten Unconscious By Iranian Regime Forces For Selling Flowers

Ahwazi Student Beaten Unconscious By Iranian Regime Forces For Selling Flowers

A young Ahwazi Arab student was critically injured on Friday when he was brutally assaulted by Iranian regime municipal officers while selling flowers in order to help feed his family. According to Ahwazi human rights activists, the student, identified as Alireza Sawari, was selling flowers and plants at the entrance to the Behesht Abad cemetery when municipal officials arrived and[Read More…]

by 13/11/2016 2 comments Human Rights
Iran Inflicts  Environmental Catastrophe In Ahwaz Region

Iran Inflicts  Environmental Catastrophe In Ahwaz Region

  Ahwazi   environmental activists are reporting an acceleratingenvironmental catastrophe in the once verdant Hor al Azim marshlands in Ahwaz near the Iraqi border with Iran.  Thelatest reports reveal that Iranian authorities recently excavated large areas of land in the marshlands, covering these in thick plastic sheeting to use as open pits for the storage of millions of barrels of oil.[Read More…]

by 03/11/2016 2 comments Environmental Protection
Iranian Regime Forces Shoot A 3-Year-Old Girl Dead, Arrest Her Father

Iranian Regime Forces Shoot A 3-Year-Old Girl Dead, Arrest Her Father

Ahwazi human rights activists have reported the murder of a three-year-old girl, Raghad Abbas (pictured), who died instantly on being shot through the heart as she sat in the back of her parents’ car when Iranian security forces opened fire indiscriminately on the vehicle on Monday October 24th.  Her father, Abbas Hassan Mashal Al-Sari, aged 41, who was driving the[Read More…]

by 27/10/2016 1 comment Human Rights
Dozens Of Ahwazi Villages Dispossessed As Iranian Regime’s Ethnic Cleansing Intensifies

Dozens Of Ahwazi Villages Dispossessed As Iranian Regime’s Ethnic Cleansing Intensifies

  The current regime with much more hostile policies in comparison with the previous Pahlavi system, has continued to carry out the ethnic cleansing policies through altering the demographic makeup of Ahwaz in south west of the country. In this era, the policy of changing the population structure of Ahwazi areas in numerous forms has been widely implemented.  Among the[Read More…]

by 25/07/2016 1 comment Human Rights
Iran Regime Sentences Three Ahwazi Young Men To Public Execution

Iran Regime Sentences Three Ahwazi Young Men To Public Execution

  A senior Iranian regime judiciary official has issued the final confirmation of the death penalty for three Ahwazi rights activists, with another four sentenced to between 25 and 35 years in prison, as well as exile. Gholam-Hossein Mohsen Eie’I, the First Deputy Head of the Iranian regime’s Judiciary, confirmed the sentences in an interview with the regime-affiliated Moj News[Read More…]

by 19/06/2016 Comments are Disabled Human Rights, World
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