Teenage Ahwazi killed in anti-regime protest
A 15-year-old Ahwazi Arab boy, Morteza Alsoweidi, was shot down during a demonstration against the actions of security services on 12 April. Alsoweidi was killed by Colonel Chabok Sawar as he joined local people in protesting against the destruction of Arab houses in the area where he lived with his family. He lived in the village of Al-Chenebah in the Sayed Mousa area. Extrajudicial killings of Ahwazi Arabs are at least as frequent as official executions of political prisoners. The bodies of many Ahwazi activists who have “disappeared” have been washed up in the Karoon.
In March 2013, the body of a 14 year old Ahwazi Arab resident of Hay al-Thawra (Dayereh) was found in the Karoon River. Pictures of Maitham Hamid Abidawi’s corpse showed that his hands were bound behind his back and his feet were tied together. A rescue team was deployed and allegedly found other bodies in the river. In April 2013, political activist Sayed Lafteh Mosavi of Sayed Karim, an area near Ahwaz City, was killed under torture while detained by the intelligence services. He had been arrested some months before and held without charge.
Rouhani competes with Rezaee for Ahwazi Arab vote
Ahwazi Arab tribal sheikhs were invited to an audience with declared bidder for the presidency Hassan Rouhani in Tehran this week, days after rival conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaee addressed Arabs in a bid for their support.
Regime hardliner attempts to co-opt Ahwazi Arabs
Former chief of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezaee is perverting the narrative of Ahwazi Arab rights in a bid 
Nabavi back in prison after interrogation over Ahwazi solidarity
Prominent Iranian student movement leader Sayed Zia Nabavi was return to Karoon prison this week following a month-long interrogation by Iranian intelligence.
Nabavi has been in prison since June 2009. While in Karoon Prison, he met and befriended Ahwazi Arab activist Mohammad Ali Amouri, who is currently facing execution for “enmity with God”. Both Nabavi and Amoori have been held in solitary confinement and tortured. Their experiences have brought them together.
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| Mohammad Ali Amoori (left) and Sayed Zia Nabavi |
In a recent appeal, entitled “story of an exiled prisoner about a prisoner who is sentenced to death, Nabavi described Amoori as a moderate person and rejected the regime’s allegations against him and other Ahwazis sentenced to death. He stated that he did not believe they were violent and accused the security services and judiciary of linking them to a non-existent armed separatist group.
Dozens of refugees go on hunger strike in Brussels
More than 40 Iranian asylum seekers began a hunger strike against their deportation at a deportation camp in 
Iran adds five years on peaceful Ahwazi activist’s prison term
An Ahwazi Arab engineer and leading human rights and cultural activist has had his jail term extended by five years 
Ahwazi hunger strike ends after 28 days
Five Ahwazi Arab political prisoners have ended their hunger strike against their death sentences following pressure
Friday prayer leader attacks Iran’s treatment of Ahwazi Arabs
A prominent Friday prayer leader in Alkhafajeyeh (Susangerd) launched a wide-ranging attack on the Iranian government’s failure to improve basic social and economic conditions for Ahwazi Arabs. In a daring sermon conducted in front of senior government officials, Hojat Aleslam Sari Asl spoke of the resistance of Arab tribes in Dasht-e-Azadeghan (Alkhafajeyeh) against British invaders and the sacrifices Arabs made during the Iran-Iraq War. However, in spite of the loss of life suffered by the population they were not getting their fair share of government assistance and officials had betrayed their promises to develop the region.
Provincial official warns of unrest among educated Ahwazis
Ahwazi Arab youths pose a threat to national security, according to Sayed Karim Husseini, the Political and Security assistant to the Khuzestan provincial governor. Husseini claimed that an increase in cultural and academic achievement among young Arabs was being exploited and manipulated by Western enemies. He pointed to the increasing political activism among Arab university lecturers, students, teachers and the wider middle-class as proof of the threats against the Islamic Republic.
On camera: Violent racial abuse of Arab students by Basiji teacher
A student has secretly filmed ritual racial attacks on three Ahwazi Arab students by their teacher, Basij member Ali Salehi Por. The teenage students – Mohammed Gharbawi, Ali Reza Gharbawi and Massoud Afrawi – were humiliated in front of their classmates in a violent and organised attack at Faridneya School, Ahwaz City.
