Sajjad Boudhar
(Sajjad Bou’zar), 17-year-old, from Howaiza, 75km west of Ahwaz city, was arrested on 17 March and transferred to Ahwaz
Juvenile Correctional Centre (prison) .
According
to sources he appeared before revolutionary
court branch in Ahwaz yesterday. Sajjad, who speaks “broken Farsi”, has had no access to
lawyer and interpreter.
Sajjad
Boudhar (Sajjad Bou’zar) and hundreds of other Ahwazi Arabs were arrested by Irainain security forces On 17 March 2015 after football match
between, a Saudi team Al Hilal and local Fould Ahwazi, turned into a massive
protest after Arab youth in traditional Arabic dress (Dishdasha) displayed a
banner in Arabic which read “We are all Younes”, and chanted against the
authorities for neglecting Younes and his family. Security forces arrested more
than 1,000 Ahwaz Arab protesters. A police spokesman later told the media that
detainees were released after signing a pledge but declined to specify the
contents of the pledges.
Iranian security force have since last month arrested and detained many Ahwazi Arabs including at least four 14-16-year- old minors. Even teachers, poets and preachers have not survived persecution.
The arrests took place in Ahwaz, Mohammara (Khoramshahr), Hamidiya, Falahiya (Shadegan) and Khafajiya (Sosangerd).
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