European Ahwazi Human Rights Organisation

Eleven Ahwazi Prisoners Face Torture by Intelligence Services

Eleven Ahwazi Arab political prisoners being held in Karoon Prison in Ahwaz have been transferred to the custody of the Iranian intelligence services for further interrogation,according to the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Al-Ahwaz (ASMLA).

 Despite the breach of legal procedures, the 11 political activists from the city of Al-Hamidiya were moved to secret detention facilities operated by the Ministry of Intelligence for unknown reasons on August 29. They have been named as:

Idan Abdulkazem al-Shakhi (Beit Sayyah)

Adnan Ali Saedi

Reza Nazal Obeidawi

Jawad Batrani

Jalil Naami

Jasem Ghlais Obeidawi

Khaled Jomaa Hassan Obeidawi

Hassan Jalaw Abbiyat

Hassan Rashed Manabi

Moustafa Sabah Koti

The detainees have been convicted on trumped up charges of 'enmity with God', a crime that is often used to convict critics of the Iranian regime. Some of the detainees - Idan Beit Sayyah, Khaled Obeidawi and Hassan Abbiyat - were shown on Iran Press TV giving false confessions following months of torture in the custody of the Iranian intelligence services.

Source: ahwaziarabs.info