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Khuzestan

Iranian-Arab crackdown comes before protest anniversary

Iranian security forces have arrested more Iranian-Arab activists in the Khuzestan Province in the past several days.

Arab farmers arrested in southwest oilfield disputes

Iranian government forces have reportedly arrested 50 farmers in the Arab regions of Iran for “protesting against the confiscation of their lands by the National Oil Company of Iran.”

Jail, exile and death for young Arab prisoners

The Ahvaz Revolutionary Court has sentenced a number of Arab-minority political prisoners to death and imprisonment.

Rights group calls for accountability in Khuzestan deaths

The group Justice for Iran has issued a statement denouncing the crackdown on protesters in Khuzestan that saw two detainees killed while in custody.

Human Rights Watch denounces arrests in Khuzestan

Human Rights Watch has issued a statement expressing grave concern over the recent wave of arrests in the Iranian province of Khuzestan.

Widespread arrests in southwestern Iran

Iranian security forces have arrested 50 people over the past two weeks in the Arab neighbourhoods of the southwestern province of Khuseztan.

Reporters Without Borders condemn "crackdown" on Iran's Arab community

Reporters Without Borders has condemned last week’s “crackdown” on anti-government protests in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, accusing the Islamic Republic of enforcing a news blackout around these demonstrations.

Ebadi draws UN attention to crackdown on protests in Ahvaz

Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has called on the United Nation’s High Commissioner of Human Rights to acknowledge recent events in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz.