Three ahwazi arab political prisoners were executed
Posted on | juni 19, 2012 | No Comments
According to these sources the three prisoners- Abdul Rahman Heidari, Taha Heidari and Jamsheed Heidari – who all belong to the Heidari family were executed early this morning Monday June 18. There is no further information about the where being of the other two prisoners.
In March this year IHR and other human rights organizations had warned against execution of five Ahwazi Arab prisoners. Iranian authorities informed the families of five prisoners from the Arab-dominated Ahwaz province that their sons will be hanged in public “within days” for allegedly killing a security member and wounding another in 2011. The detainees included three brothers – Abdolrahman, Taha, and Jamsheed Haidari – and their cousin Mansour Haidari and Amir Moawya. They were arrested under anti-regime protests in Ahwaz in 2011 and were charged with the murder of a security member. Their families say the prisoners confessed to the murder under torture. International attention was probably the reason why they were not executed in March.
On June 10 this year IHR warned once again about the imminent danger of execution of these prisoners and urged the international community to react.
AUTHOR: Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam
URL: http://iranhr.net/
E-MAIL: amirymoghaddam [at] gmail.com
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