Ahwazis address Geneva meeting

The Iranian regime is engaged in crimes against humanity in its attempts to ethnically cleanse Ahwazi Arabs from their homeland, Ali Saedi the Director of the Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) told a meeting at the UN headquarters in Geneva this week.
Addressing activists, UN officials and human rights NGOs, including the independent expert on minority issues Rita Isaacs, Ali Saedi called for the international community to do more to support the rights of "defenceless" Ahwazi Arabs who are facing "barbaric violence" by the Iranian state.

The family of a KU student face death penalty in Iran after a year of torture

Submitted by Georgina Deacon on Thursday 21st of February 2013

A Kingston student is fearing for his family and friends in Iran after they were sentenced to death by the Iranian courts.

Jack Hammond and Jamie Elliott

A KU student has described his fears for his two cousins and three friends after they were sentenced to death by the Iranian courts.

Kamil Alboshoka’s two cousins, Jabber and Mokhtar, along with his three friends Mohammed Amouri, Hashem Shabani and Hadi Rashedi, were arrested in their homes in Ahwaz, Iran in 2011.

"Their death penalty decision was upheld by high revolution court in Tehran which puts them in a very dangerous situation," said Mr Alboshoka, 29, a final year human geography student at Kingston.

"They have very poor health now and do not have access to doctors. They have a lack of food and poor facilities in the prison."

Tortured day and night

Foreign Office Minister welcomes UN resolution condemning the human rights situation in Iran

Published:

28 November 2012

Policy:

Promoting human rights internationally

Minister:

Alistair Burt MP

World location:

Iran

Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said: "The overwhelming number of votes in support represents a clear statement by the international community that this situation is unacceptable and should be condemned."

Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt said:
“I welcome yesterday’s adoption of this resolution on the human rights situation in Iran by the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. The overwhelming number of votes in support represents a clear statement by the international community that this situation is unacceptable and should be condemned.
“Iran’s human rights record remains appalling. The last twelve months have seen multiple violations by the regime of its human

Statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the confirmed death sentences and potentially imminent executions of five Ahwazi Arab men in Iran

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Statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton
on the confirmed death sentences and potentially imminent
executions of five Ahwazi Arab men in Iran
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice
President of the Commission issued the following statement today:
"It was with great concern that I learned that an Iranian High Court has upheld the death sentences