Repression against indigenous Ahwazi Arabs Continues
 
On 2 March 2006, Ali Afrawi (17.5 years old) and Mehdi Nawaseri (20) were executed in public following months of incarceration and possibly torture and
a trial that failed to meet international standards. Relatives of the two executed men claim that the authorities have refused to release the two men's bodies because they could show evidence of torture. In the same week, three Ahwazi Arabs were executed in Karoon Prison while two others were executed in Shoshtar and
Abadan. Muhammad-Ali Afrawi's sister, Khadijeh Afrawi, was murdered by security forces in Ahwaz City soon after his execution. His father, Dr Awdeh
Afrawi, a psychologist at an Ahwaz Chamran hospital, is currently in prison and is also likely to face execution after months in detention.

On 17 March 2006, Kamal Daghaghla was summarily executed amid a wave of arrests and killings. Arab Teacher Risan Hassan Sewari (30) is facing imminent execution for his alleged role in the October 2005 bomb attack in Ahwaz, although he has been  in detention since early September 2005.

Thousands have been arrested since an Arab uprising in April 2005 and many are still detained without charges.

 Arrests carried out between 20 February 2006 and 7 March 2006 include:

1.Abdullah Solimani (27 year old), arrested in Ahwaz
2. Hadi Batili-Motori (abu-mohamad), 48, (jailed from 1995-2005 and
    re-arrested), suffers from kidney disease.
3. Said Hamidi (37), Engineer, a known cultural activist in Ahwaz.
4. Ali Mator-Zadeh, arrested in Mahshahr (Masshur)
5. Ms. Fahimeh Ismail (27), Teacher, pregnant
6. Ms. Soghra Khazirawi (27), arrested in Ahwaz
7. Husseinali Nawaseri (50), married with 4 children, re-arrested on
    2/20/.2006 after being detained without charges since April 15, 2006.
8. Abdolreza Bitsakhra, married with 4 children, re-arrested on 2/22/2006,
    has been detained since April 15, 2005 and fired from his job.
9. Malik Bani Tamim,
10. Abdolamir Kaab-pour, arrested in Shooshtar
11. Ahmad Hamidawi
12. Mansour Daimi-Nejad (28)
13. Rasoul Dahimi (28)
14. Radhi Damhimi
15. Musa Karim-Haidari (29), Arrested in Besaitin
16. Ahmad Karim-Haidari, (30), Arrested in Besaitin
17. Aref Gholi-Haidari (30), Arrested in Besaitin
18. Ahmad Said-Mormoza (28), arrested in Khorammshahr (Mohammarah)
19. Hassan Said-Mormoza (26), arrested in Khorammshahr (Mohammarah)
20. Yossef  Said-Mormoza(24), arrested in Khorammshahr (Mohammarah)
21. Rasoul Khalaf Dahimi (26), Salesman
22. Mohsen Arib-Sawari, arrested in Lu-Abdullah
23. Saleh Atieh-Altari Sewari (20), arrestee din Ahwaz
24. Jaber Abdolsadeh al-Haidari, arrested in Kut Abdullah
25. Abbas Bani-Torof, Teacher, arrested din Khafajieh
26. Abdolsadeh Haidari, Teacher, arrested din Khafjieh
27. Adel Sawari, Teacher, arrested din Khafajieh
28.- Hadi Saidawi, Teacher, arrested din Khafjieh
29. Mohammad Kaabpour arrested in Shoshtar
30. Abdolhussein Berahi-Moghadam (30), married arrested on 3/16/2006 in
   Sarbandar.
31. Hussein Asakereh, (30), married, arrested on 3/16/2006 in Koraha-Maashur.

32. Samir Zewidi Muslimnejad (42), arrested on 3/16/2006, He  has previously served a 10-year prison sentence.

33. Majid Mazaal (25), handicapped, (paraplegic), arrested 2/26/2006 in
Abadan.
 
Majid Mazzal is severely handicapped and his family says he has been tortured. On 17 February, he was moved to Abadan hospital and chained to a
hospital bed, badly ill and unconscious.

The regime has deployed several additional divisions of Revotionary Guards (Pasdaran) and Baseej para-military forces to the area. Khuzestan is
currently cordoned off and under siege.
 
We appeal to the world, the UN, EU, international NGO and the international community at large, to pressure the Iranian regime to stop the brutal
repression of Ahwazi Arabs and ask that a team of neutral observers be sent to Khuzestan immediately to investigate the arrests, unfair trials and
extrajudicial executions of indigenous Ahwazi Arabs in Khuzestan.

Ahwaz Human Rights Organization

Please see these sites for more information:
www.ahwazstudies.org
http://www.ahwaz.org.uk/news.html