Raped, beaten and abused – just because of a desire for freedom
01 Dec 2015
The London based Telegraph published an article revealing the brutality of the Iranian regime and the atrocities perpetrated against innocent Iranian people, in particular ethnic Iranian Arabs. In a documented revelation, the paper has published sad and horrifying story of an Iranian Arab man who was arrested merely for his ethnic origin labeling him anti-government and against the security of system. The story begins with a note of the West’s ignorance of the human rights violations in Iran, just to seal a nuclear deal with a state sponsor of terrorism. The name and the identity of the man has deliberately been concealed in this article for security and ethical reasons.
'The rush to a nuclear deal with Iran has left human rights issues sidelined. Few people in the West seem to care. They just want to ensure that Tehran does not develop a nuclear capability. This aim is understandable but it leaves Iran’s political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic minorities with little hope of any respite.
Tehran denies abusing human rights and seeks to deflect criticism by pointing the finger at abuses by Western countries. Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei, has accused the US of oppressing the black community. Other leaders have boasted that, unlike the West, Iran has no racial discrimination. I know different; having been a victim of the regime’s anti-Arab racism.
I belong to the Arab ethnic minority in Iran, known as Ahwazis. Our homeland, Al-Ahwaz, is now part of south-west Iran. Oil-rich and agriculturally-abundant.
In the years after the 2005 Ahwazi Arab uprising against the Iranian regime, the Tehran regime made indiscriminate mass arrests of an estimated 25,000 Ahwazi human rights, cultural and political activists.
In October 2008, the police came for me. I was a 22-year-old newly-wed student living in my home city of Khalafiya in Ahwaz and studying English translation at Abadan Azad university.
The university authorities reported me to the security services after I formed a student group to raise awareness of the officially suppressed Ahwazi Arab culture. This was seen as a threat to the regime.
They accused me of endangering national security, anti-government propaganda, activism against the regime and inciting secessionist sentiments.
'The rush to a nuclear deal with Iran has left human rights issues sidelined. Few people in the West seem to care. They just want to ensure that Tehran does not develop a nuclear capability. This aim is understandable but it leaves Iran’s political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic minorities with little hope of any respite.
Tehran denies abusing human rights and seeks to deflect criticism by pointing the finger at abuses by Western countries. Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei, has accused the US of oppressing the black community. Other leaders have boasted that, unlike the West, Iran has no racial discrimination. I know different; having been a victim of the regime’s anti-Arab racism.
I belong to the Arab ethnic minority in Iran, known as Ahwazis. Our homeland, Al-Ahwaz, is now part of south-west Iran. Oil-rich and agriculturally-abundant.
In the years after the 2005 Ahwazi Arab uprising against the Iranian regime, the Tehran regime made indiscriminate mass arrests of an estimated 25,000 Ahwazi human rights, cultural and political activists.
In October 2008, the police came for me. I was a 22-year-old newly-wed student living in my home city of Khalafiya in Ahwaz and studying English translation at Abadan Azad university.
The university authorities reported me to the security services after I formed a student group to raise awareness of the officially suppressed Ahwazi Arab culture. This was seen as a threat to the regime.
They accused me of endangering national security, anti-government propaganda, activism against the regime and inciting secessionist sentiments.
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