Ahwazi Activist Tortured In Prison
Mr Haidari worked in Maashour in the
petrochemicals industry and was responsible for the contracts at a pipeline
company in Ahwaz, prior to his arrest in May 2009. He is currently serving a 10
years and 6 months sentence in prison in regards to his study and research into
the Ahwazi Arab history. He was also convicted due to his writings on the issue
of deprivation and poor economic situation of the Ahwazi Arabs, all of which
are regarded as threatening to the Iranian regime and its national security.
During his imprisonment at the notorious Karoon
prison, he received both psychological and physical torture and attained two
broken ribs. During the past couple of months, he was transferred twice to
interrogation centres run by the Ministry of Intelligence where he has been
receiving further torture. He was then finally transferred to Shiraz. It is
said that Mr Haidari is on the verge of dying due to the condition he is in as
a result of the torture he has been facing.
This wanton interrogation of Mr Haidari began
as a result of a secretly filmed video, showing four Ahwazi Arabs remonstrating
for their innocence and accusing the intelligence services of corruption for
forcefully extracting false confessions under torture, was released before
their execution. He was accused and convicted for assisting in the filming of
the video alongside two other men; Nazem Beraihi (27) and Yahya Naseri (32).
Recently, in Alsusa, Alkhalafia, and
Alqunaidara (Dezful), six Ahwazi Arabs died under torture by the Iranian
intelligence services. These men were not charged of any crime nor did they
commit any, however were still executed, making these killings illegal under
both Iranian and international law.
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