Rahim Hamid, Contributor Rahim Hamid is a freelance journalist and human rights advocate who covers the plight of his community – the Ahwazi Arabs – and other ethnic groups in Iran. Ghazi Haidari is drowning in his own blood. The...
By Rahim Hamid, an Ahwazi journalist and human rights activist This foul fluid which looks and reportedly smells like liquid sewage is, in fact, the heavily polluted water supply for drinking and washing at a children’s school in the Arab...
Araz News: In a speech on Tuesday July 11, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted that his government is propping up the Assad regime militarily and financially in Syria, and providing troops and militias in Iraq, as well as bragging that during...
By Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi Arab rights activist The Ahwaz region in the south and southwest of Iran is currently witnessing a campaign of severe oppression enforced by the Iranian regime. Amid a complete media blackout, the regime has been arbitrarily...
Many international organizations and institutions across a multitude of countries are working to strengthen and support mother tongues, especially those languages facing extinction due to the lack of native speakers. UNESCO was founded to preserve the cultures of peoples and...
Rahim Hamid With Iran’s presidential election soon taking place, media in the country are constantly reporting on tensions between Iranian hardliners and so-called reformists as contenders are vying for the leadership. Whatever the outcome of the election, however, Iranian people...
Written by Rahim Hamid, Ahwazi freelance journalist based in the USA International recognition of Iran’s 90-year occupation of the Arab state of Ahwaz would be a fatal blow to the Iranian regime and its regional expansionism and interventions, say...
By Rahim Hamid Hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs led a demonstration in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday in solidarity with the Arab people of Ahwaz currently experiencing the worst brutality to date in another crackdown by...
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 Ahwazi football fans on Friday braved the wrath of the Iranian regime to raise their voices for freedom, unfurling banners demanding freedom and human rights at a match at Al-Ghadir stadium in the region’s eponymous capital Ahwaz,...
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...
By Rahim Hamid Hundreds of supporters of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz participated in a mass demonstration in front of the Iranian Embassy in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on Friday, to express their solidarity with the...
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...
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...
Written by Rahim Hamid At the end of his visit to Italy, at a press conference, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president refused to apologize for the torching of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. When asked about this, Rohani...
