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Iran prepares to execute two Ahwazi Arab brothers |
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Two Ahwazi Arab brothers convicted of "waging war against Allah" have been sentenced to death in relation to recent bombings in Ahwaz City. Their execution will come after a long period of incarceration and torture by the Iranian regime and a trial by a religious kangaroo court.
Mehdi Nawaser, 21, (left) and Abdolreza Nawaser, 31, (right) are facing execution by hanging, either in the prison where they are being held or in a public square. Mehdi was arrested in November before the Eid-al-Fitr anti-government demonstrations. Following his conviction he reportedly told the court that he refused to accept the ruling of a non-indigenous, non-Arab, discredited and undemocratic regime.
The Nawaser brothers cases are not thought to be related to the six sons of Ahwazi Arab tribal leader Hajj Salem Bawi, who are all facing execution for "waging war against Allah". Click here for further details on the Bawi brothers. (2/20/2006 11:07:49 PM)
 The Iranian regime is allowing the flooding of land in Khuzestan to make it impossible for Ahwazi Arabs to farm or live there.
The Karoon and Karkhe rivers that flow through the province have flooded, although there has been no rain. A 170 km stretch of land from Ahwaz to Mohammara (Khorramshahr) is now under water, according to local politicians. The flooding has devastated crops just one month ahead of the harvest. Already suffering high levels of poverty due to racial discrimination and forced displacement, Ahwazi Arab farmers are facing hunger and homelessness as a result of the regime's refusal to prevent flooding. Most flood-affected Ahwazis are now either stranded on the roofs of their homes or living on roadsides.
Mohammad Said Ansari, a Conservative Majlis (parliament) representative for the Arab city of Abadan, said that the flooding has devastated Ahwazi Arab farms and attacked "bad policies". He alleged that the authorities had deliberately caused the flood by refusing to dredge and desilt the Karoon and Bahmanshir rivers. The government is trying to create the impression that the province has enough water reserves to divert water to dry provinces such as Rafsanjan, he said. Ansari has called for an immediate investigation into the cause of the rising water in Karoon and Karkhe and compensation and housing for those affected.
Reformist Majlis representative for Abadan, Abdullah Kaabi, is also campaigning for assistance for those made homeless by the floods. The Ministry of Energy and Power has ignored his repeated calls for the dredging of the Bahmanshir river and repairs to levees to prevent flooding. Kaabi concludes that the ministry is therefore directly responsible for the humanitarian disaster. He has also attacked emergency services for failing to intervene to alleviate the problems facing Ahwazi Arabs affected by floods.
Khuzestan Majlis members have already called for the impeachment of the Minister of Energy and Power Parviz Fattah over the diversion of the Karoon River to Rafsanjan. Click here for further details.
Ahwazi Arab representatives have long been campaigning against river diversion, but the Iranian government has continued to press ahead with the scheme. At a session of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in May-June 2005, Karim Abdian, Director of Ahwaz Education and Human Rights Foundation, drew attention to the diversion of water from Karkhe River, which passes through an entirely indigenous Ahwazi Arab area of Howizeh and Boustan, to Kuwait and the diversion of the Karoon's water to central Iranian provinces. (2/20/2006 10:50:04 PM)
The British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS) has received reports that two Ahwazi Arab political prisoners were executed in the prison of a prison in Dezful while another two were executed by hanging in a public square in Shiraz. We do not have the names of those killed by the Iranian regime.
On 16 February, the Ahwaz Revolutionary court sentenced 10 Ahwazi Arabs to death for alleged connection to recent bombings: Amar Bawi, Hani Bawi, Zamal Bawi, Said Abiat, Mehdi Nawaseri, Ali Aodeh Afrawi (medical doctor), Mohamadali Saweri (teacher), Raisan Sawaeri and Moslem Alhani. BAFS has been following the cases of the Bawi brothers, who are the sons of Ahwazi tribal leader and businessman Hajj Salem Bawi. Click here for further details.
Prisons in Ahwaz are overflowing due to mass arrests by the Iranian authorities. At least 100 people were arrested in demonstrations in Ahwaz City and Fallahieah (Shadegan) on 16 February for wearing the kafieh and white dishdasha, Arab clothes recently banned in Khuzestan by the regime, and for carrying the Ahwazi national flag. Witnesses reported that Sepidar prison was refusing new prisoners due to over-crowding, a problem that is also affecting Karoon, Chahrshir, Amanieh and Serah prisons. (2/20/2006 10:15:14 AM) |
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