Ahwazi Prisoner on Hunger Strike
Ghazi Haidari, an industrial engineer, is in an
awfully grave and life threatening condition after being severely tortured at
an interrogation centre in Ahwaz city. It’s said that this was due to his
political and cultural activism in regards to his Ahwazi Arab nationality.
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.
This wanton interrogation of Mr Haidari was
also the result of a secretly filmed video, showing four Ahwazi Arabs, three of
which were brothers, 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), while he was in prison.
During his imprisonment at the notorious Karoon
prison, he received both psychological and physical torture, attained two
broken ribs, was deafened in one ear, and his arm was broken. 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 prison. 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.
EAHRO
recently, on Thursday 14th February 2013, received material showing Mr Haidari is currently
on a hunger strike against the cruel mistreating he faced in prison.
Recently, in Alsusa, Alkhalafia, and
Alqunaidara (Dezful), a number of 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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