Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Several Ahwazi Arab residents of Susangerd, Dasht-e Azadegan (in the province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran) were detained by security forces and transferred to an unknown location on September 19, 2018 after reportedly chanting protests during a Shiite religious ceremony.
An informed source told HRANA that security forces responded to a number of protesters who were chanting slogans against the regime’s policies and economic failures during local mourning ceremonies in observance of Muharram. Two of the arrested individuals have been identified as Ahma Sovidi and Fayez Afravi. The identities of their comrades have yet to be confirmed.
According to HRANA’s annual report, between March 2017 and March 2018, 6883 people were arrested in Iran for political reasons or for expressing their beliefs. 1281 of these were individual arrests (i.e. independent of coordinated raids or the crackdown of unified protests).
These include 66 media users, 14 environmental activists, 222 adherents to religious minorities (in addition to the Dervishes arrested during the Tehran Golestan Haftom incident in February 2017), 114 women’s rights activists, and 60 workers and labour activists.
Tag: Khuzestan
Flogged in Public for Sex Outside of Marriage
HRANA News Agency – A prisoner was flogged in public in Masjed-Soleyman, Khuzestan Province, on charges of having sexual intercourse without being married.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Tuesday afternoon, July 20, 2011, a prisoner identified by the initials Q. M. received 90 lashes in Masjed-Soleyman’s main square.
Khuzestan Province’s Judiciary Public Relations announced that the flogging sentence had been issued by the criminal court in order to carry out justice and enforce the law of the land.
Staff Rally in Front of Governor’s Office in Mahshahr
HRANA News Agency – This morning, one hundred employees of a special project to safeguard construction plans in the region staged a sit in and demonstration in front of the governor’s office in Mahshahr [Khuzestan Province, Iran].
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), during this gathering, the employees carried various placards and signs some of which read, “Don’t Lay Us Off.”
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