According to Ahwazi activists within Al-Ahwaz quoted to Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) that the Iranian security service has launch mass campaign of raids and arrests against Ahwazi activists in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Hassan Sari (Sobhipour), film and imaging director, and Mr. Hossein Eshghian (Saki) Makeup artist both from Ahwazi \u201cNasr\u201d Cultural Institute were arrested by the Iranian intelligence service on Wednesday the 20th<\/sup>of March 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Sari living in \u201cAlthawra (Alawi)\u201d district and Mr. Saki living in \u201cAlwourwd (Golestan)\u201d district of Ahwaz capital were arrested by the Iranian intelligence service without a judicial warrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Sari has recently created a clip about the Arabic identity in Ahwaz, which was widely welcomed by the Ahwazis for its creativity. In this clip that named as “The Unity Song”, there are Ahwazi young girls and boys wearing Arabic dresses have been used in making the clip, and poetry that used in the clip, has been used by the people of \u201cRofaye\u2019a\u201d village in the face of the recent flood in southern and western cities of Al-Ahwaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iranian security forces did not give any explanation when arresting the institute members, but the recent clip was the main reason behind the arrest of this person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ACHR has realized from its own sources that the Iranian media authority has asked the director to use of the Iranian flag in all his clips where Mr. Sari has refused stating that we should not mixing cultural activities with political agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In similar context the Iranian intelligence service has arrested number of Ahwazi young on Sunday the 17th<\/sup>of March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ACHR has identified following names:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ACHR realized that the Iranian intelligence service aimed from the arrests to cool down the tensions in Ahwaz region and declared to the arrestees that they will be released after new year days terminates (usually two weeks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns the Iranian arbitrary arrests against Ahwazi youth and calls for the immediate release of All Ahwazi detainees unconditionally and the centre calls upon the international human rights organizations and defenders to denounce the Iranian barbaric crackdown against Ahwazi activists and put pressure on Iranian regime to stops its criminal policies in all over Al-Ahwaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iranian regime\u2019s new techniques for forced migration Ahwazi Citizens with a man-made flood derived from opening one of many Dams in Ahwaz, Dez Dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From killing Ahwazi Activists to publicly announcing that they hate Arabs (in different platforms) to Iranian regime\u2019s deliberate attempt to Forced Migrate the Ahwazi citizens from Ahwaz to other region, has been a plan since this regime\u2019s early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n