Concerns about the Executions of Ahvazi
Arab Activists in Iran
تشدید نگرانی در مورد احتمال اعدام تعدادی از فعالان عرب اهوازی
NOVEMBER
11, 2018
Iran
Human Rights (IHR); November 11, 2018: IHR has received information about the
execution of several Ahvazi Arab activists on Thursday, November 8.
Two different
sources confirmed to IHR that several Ahwazi Arab activists were executed on
Thursday, November 8, at one of the prisons in the Iranian city of Ahvaz
(Ahwaz).
“In the
aftermath of the September attack to a military parade in Ahvaz, Iranian
Ministry of intelligence announced that 22 people were arrested for alleged
connection to the incident. It seems that authorities executed all of them on
Thursday. Today [Sunday, November 11] they told the prisoners’ families that
the executions were carried out. They warned the families against public
mourning.”
Of note, a
military parade was attacked by armed gunmen in the southwestern Iranian city
of Ahvaz on 22 September 2018. Iranian security forces arrested 22 people for
alleged connection with the attackers.
IHR sources
believe that the executions were carried out at Sheyban Prison in Ahwaz.
