The Jamestown Foundation recently reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran handed out prison sentences to five Azerbaijani activists for supporting Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War. Simultaneously, they reported that during Armeniaâs occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh, many Azerbaijani mosques were transformed into Iranian mosques and were thus were made âPersianâ in style following repair work, a reality that greatly infuriated Azerbaijanâs president, who viewed the measure to be cultural repression.
Around the same period, Hamid Mutashir, the President of the Al Ahwaz Liberal Party, reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards killed six Baloch civilians. Sirwan Mansouri, a Kurdish journalist based in the Middle East, added: âThe Iranian regime has arrested more than 100 Kurdish activists from different cities in Kurdistan, among them men, women and even children without any reason. Most of them are now getting tortured and their families have no
UNPO joins global call for urgent action on arbitrarily detained minority rights defenders in Iran
36 civil society and human rights organizations, including the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), have jointly made an urgent appeal to the international community to secure the release of Kudish acitvists and others arbitrarily detained in Iran. The UNPO has long been campaiging for recognition of the grave danger than Iranian minority rights defenders face, both in Iran and overseas. In August 2020, UNPO members from around the world representing some 300 million unrepresented people, jointly issued a resolution calling for urgent action to be taken to protect Iran s minorities. It is deeply disturbed by significant crackdown targetting the Kurdish community, as well as other minorities such as the Ahwaz and Baloch, that has seen widespread arbitrary arrests and continued executions of minority rights defenders in Iran. It urges the international community to lis
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