Arrest of 11 Ahwazi Sunni citizens

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In the past week, 11 Sunni activists who are Ahwazi Arab citizens have been arrested.

Last week, seven Sunni religious activists, including Ahwazi Arab citizens Ayub Ahmadi, Saeed Khezri Hamadi, Ahmad Afravi, Ali Ravanbakhsh, Khalaf Zubeidi, Abdul Reza Jalali (known as Abdul Wahab) and Nasser Jalali, were arrested and sent to prison.

Security forces also went to the homes of Seyyed Jafar Mousavi, Ghazi Handali, Seyyed Ahmad Nizari and Seyyed Ahmad Nizari and arrested them.

These 13 people were all arrested on January 18, 2012 and were tried in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz on charges of “propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic.”

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