Thursday, January 24, 2013

Iran: Stop Execution of Ahwazi Arab Political Prisoners #HumanRights Watch #hrw #iranelections #iranexecutions

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/24/iran-stop-execution-ahwazi-arab-political-prisoners

......” The five men – Mohammad Ali Amouri, Sayed
Jaber Alboshoka and his brother Sayed Mokhtar
Alboshoka, Hashem Sha’bani Amouri, and Hadi
Rashidi (or Rashedi) – are all activists in Iran’s
Arab-majority Khuzestan province, in southwest
Iran. A branch of the Revolutionary Court
sentenced them to death on terrorism-related
charges following an unfair trial in July 2012. On January 18, authorities informed families gathered outside Karoun Prison in the south-western city of Ahvaz that the five men had been transferred out
of the prison. Their whereabouts are unknown”.....

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