Araz  News: Abbas Badavi  a 12-year-old Ahwazi Arab student Committed suicide after the expulsion from school on 30 Dec.

The teenager student lived in a village in the suburbs of Shush, hanged himself at 9 pm on Saturday, December 30. The boy has been hospitalized in the CCU section of a hospital in the city of Ahwaz in western Iran.

According to receiving information from his family, he was punished by his teacher due to jumping from the school wall. Afterward, Abbas  was expelled from the school by his teacher.

According to Ahwazi Arabs activist sources, the teacher  identity has not been announced yet and he has  been  detained.

Such tragic incidents are not uncommon amongst Ahwazi children and teenagers, with the regime’s de facto apartheid policies towards the Ahwazi people due to their Arab ethnicity driving increasing numbers of young Ahwazis to take their own lives in despair.
Despite the Ahwaz region housing over 90 percent of the oil and gas resources claimed by the Iranian regime, its people see no profit from the countless billions of dollars earned from their resources, with all the monies going to Tehran, while Ahwazis are denied the most basic of rights and freedoms and treated as second-class citizens.  Local human rights activists and health organizations in the region have no doubt that the systemic injustice, discrimination and brutal oppression inflicted by the regime are the primary factors in rising rates of depression, psychological illness and suicidal feelings reported amongst young Ahwazis,  with the inadequate or non-existent healthcare, education and other services, particularly in rural areas, worsening these feelings of hopelessness.

By-A.A