Iranian security forces have broken into the homes of Ahwazi citizens in Khezera outskirt of Susa city and arrested a large number of Ahwazi citizens, on April 29.According to sources inside Ahwaz, after arbitrary arresting the detainees were taken to...
Araz News: 28.04.2014 Following the hunger strike action of several South Azerbaijani political prisoners in Tabriz Central Prison and Evin Prison of Tehran many South Azerbaijani rights activists in the country and abroad joined their strike starting the “Hello Hunger”...
Araz News: South Azerbaijani Society of America (SASA) and Karabakh Foundation participated in Global Languages and Cultures Network Festival representing respectively the South and North Azerbaijan. International Language Network Festival is held annually in May in Washington DC aiming to...
The Drying of Iran’s Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East (1,2,3). It extends...
Araz News: Azerbaijani political prisoner, Behnam Sheikhi is in hunger strike. Through a telephone call he informed a relative of him that he had started hunger strike. Currently he is held in solitary confinement in 209 Ward of Evin Prison....
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has harshly criticized Armenian leadership for failing to respond to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s condolences for 1915 events.“It’s clear who does not want peace in the region,” Aliyev said in response to Armenian President...
Araz News: Parliament member of Mianeh city of the East Azerbaijan province, Seyed Bahloul Hosseini said education in Turkish is a demand of people of Azerbaijan, to be implemented through 15th article of constitution. Nasr News agency reported, in a...
Araz News: Two more South Azerbaijani Political prisoners join ongoing hunger strike. Oyrenci Sesi (Voice of Student) website reports Asadollah Asadi and Esmail Barzgari have begun hunger strike to protest inhuman harsh raid of the Ward 350 of Evin Prison....
The kind of terminologies and concepts employed by marginalized writers, intellectuals and activists have central bearing in defining and articulating anti-colonial and anti-oppression struggles. While the use of a plethora of slogans and mottos at the grassroots level helps to...
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev is reportedly banned to enter the territory of Crimea for five years, press service of the Mejlis Crimean Tatar reports. While crossing Crimea-Ukrainian border April 22, Mr. Jemilev was handed over “An act on notification...
The support of Turkmen for the candidates listed in Kirkuk Turkmen Front list number 280 to participate in the General Elections of April continues. Citizens speaking on Turkmeneli Television urged all Turkmen to participate in the elections and vote for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that would relax requirements for obtaining Russian citizenship for those who are fluent in Russian and live or have lived in the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire within the present borders...
Latest Developments Related to Crimean Tatars Mustafa Jemilev detained at the checkpoint, finally entered Crimea The veteran leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Jemilev, has been briefly detained by Russian border guards while entering Crimea from mainland Ukraine April 19....
Araz News: Atiye Taheri began hunger strike to support her husband Said Matinpour. In a massage posted on her facebook page she wrote: “Since 25th May 2007 I judged myself many times. I do not have an acceptable success on...
Araz News: According to Karim Dahimi, the Ahwazi human rights activist, Eighty-four Ahwazi Arab youth citizens have been arrested since 6 April, 2014by the regime security forces while the reason of their arrest and their whereabouts is still unknown. He...
