Araz News: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards ground forces have killed five members of a PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) terrorist group in northwestern Iran on 13 June 2016. Acceding to Araz News Agency report, Revolutionary Guards ground forces...
Araz News: A Conference about the problems of ethnic and religious minorities in Iran was held in US National Press Center –Washington on 15th of June 2016. The conference was held with the cooperation of ‘The Ahwaz Human Rights Organization ”...
BY-Rahim Hamid It has been reported by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) that the Ahwazi Arab people are much more affected by poverty, deprivation and marginalization along with other minority ethnic groups in Iran. One of the reasons for...
By Rahim Hamid, a freelance journalist and human rights advocate A Persian Iranian teacher reportedly punished two Ahwazi Arab primary school pupils for speaking with each other in their Arabic mother tongue last week by forcing them to wash...
Araz News: The United Nations the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, today raised continuing concerns about the extremely high rate of executions, especially for juvenile offenders, and fundamental flaws in...
Araz News: The Islamic Republic of Iran is spending $36 million to develop what has been called “smart filtering” in order to strengthen its Internet censorship capabilities. The project is to be completed in collaboration with several domestic universities, the report said....
Written by Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi Human Rights Activist This report on recent human rights atrocities committed by the Iranian Government against the indigenous Arabs of the Al-Ahwaz region. The report sheds light on poverty, environment, prisons and courts, racism and...
Araz News: women are being turned away by local Iranian authorities despite assurances by Iranian authorities that they would comply with international rules and allow women to attend the Beach Volleyball World Championship on Kish Island. Female spectators couldn’t attend the Championship...
Araz News: An anonymous team of brainy Iranian app developers have come up with a solution to help fashionable Iranians, particularly girls and women, avoid running into trouble with the Islamic Republic’s morality police (“Ershad”). Ershad’s mobile checkpoints which usually consist...
A series of Ahwazi demonstrations and events in European capitals will be conducted in support and solidarity with the Ahwazi prisoners languishing in the prisons of the Iranian regime. The demonstrations, in particular, will give air to the suppressed voice...
The Ahwazi peoples have lived for 90 years to date in absolute destitution, deliberately marginalised by successive Iranian regimes, near the searing fires from the oilfields on their own lands. By Rahim Hamid More than ten villages are...
Araz News: In the Government of Hassan Rouhani, military security ministry’s budget will increase from 15% to 50% next year (1395) and the overall defense budget by more than a third despite international sanctions and the drop in oil prices. According...
Written by Rahim Hamid Exposures to environmental contamination continued to be a primary cause of health risk in Al-Ahwaz region also knows as Khuzestan in the south-west of Iran. Unclean water, bad sanitation and poor hygiene are the main causes...
Araz News: At least 22 million Iranians have registered at Telegram, a mobile social networks application. Some 15 million of them are active users, Abolhassan Firouzabadi, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, said. He said that some 50 percent...
Araz News: Thirty Ahwazi Arabs have reportedly died so far of swine flu, with doctors at hospitals in the region warning that the actual death toll is probably higher since Iranian authorities are deliberately minimizing the casualty numbers in order to...
