Emad Al Din Albaghi : execution for any crime is a dangerous way

Source Deutsche Welle –Persian

02/01/2007

Translated by Reza Vashahi



In long interview with DW-Persian web site, with Emad Al Din Albaghi, head of Iranian defender of prison and guarding right of life, asked with execution of 6 Arabs in Ahwaz till now, do you hope that this executions are going to stop by your campaign?

Emad Al Din Albaghi: we always criticized the procedure of the case in courts; detainees right did not restored during their detention.

In interrogation the lawyer were not present, this is basically for human right activist making lots of question in mind, any way we hope that with writing letters and lobbying we can stop rest of execution. Without hope we can not do any thing and we hope they will keep it to this five execution and families of others have peace.

People of Abadan will have healthy water from next year!!!!!!!!!

Translation by Reza Vashahi

Analyse and back ground by Reza Vashahi

Source: Fars News agency

05/01/2007


Minister of energy in press conference in Abadan city said to people that from next year they will have healthy water.

Parviz Fatah in interview with Fars News agency said that progress of water refinery 34 percent has progress till now.

He said also they do not have problem with founding for this project.



Analyse and back ground

In 5 July 2000, people of Abadan came out in peace full demonstration because the water was so salty that no one can eat it.

Abadan which was the biggest oil refinery in the world now does not have even health water. When energy minister saying from next year people will have healthy water, question came to mind that what they been drinking till now then?

I myself tested salty water of Abadan and it was unacceptable, this is crime toward the people in Ahwaz, one of the basic rights of human is healthy water. Abadan with having huge river passing by, this is unacceptable that people do not have healthy water.

Ahwaz contain %33 of Iran’s water.

Water became salty because of the land took away from Arab farmers and turned it into sugar farms and in process of refining the salt of land all the salt came to the river which it was above the Abadan city. Sugar farm owner reported to be property of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian president.

After decade still this problem going on. We call on international community to see the effect of this salty year for people of this area.

Ahmadinejad to visit Ahwaz as more Ahwazis face execution

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to visit Ahwaz on Tuesday, the day after three Ahwazi Arabs were sentenced to death for opposing his regime.According to the President's press department Ahmadinejad is scheduled to tour a number of Arab towns, including Ahwaz, Mohammara (Khorramshahr) and Abadan. He will be accompanied by members of his cabinet, supposedly to meet with the people and discuss their problems.However, Arabs who have attempted to demonstrate peacefully against Iran's land confiscation and Persianisation programmes have faced arrest, summary execution and torture.On Monday, three Ahwazi Arabs were sentenced to death by Mashahr Revolutionary Court on charges of "waging war against God" and acting against national security, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA). The Iranian media has referred to the three men only by their initials: H A, A M and H H. They were tortured into giving confessions, but are contesting the verdicts and the cases will be referred to Iran's Supreme Court.Three Ahwazis were executed in Karoun Prison on 19 December, despite a worldwide campaign backed by the European Parliament which called for a halt to the execution of Arab rights activists (click here for more information). Iranian prisoners' rights activist Emadeddin Baghi has also called for a stop to the hangings, claiming that the charges against the men are dubious, the trial process is flawed and the executions are fuelling instability in the Ahwaz region (click here for his appeal to the Chief of the Judiciary).According to the Tehran-based Ahwazi journalist Youssef Azizi Bani Torouf, 20 Ahwazi Arabs have been sentenced to death in the past year with many more waiting trial for political crimes that carry the death penalty (click here to read his article in Arabic).Nasser Bani Assad, spokesman for the British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS), said: "Ahmadinejad claim that he is listening to the poor and dispossessed is belied by the brutal methods meted out to any Ahwazi Arab campaigning for minority rights. Arab groups seeking constitutional means of advancing the rights agenda have been banned and their leaders imprisoned or executed."Ahmadinejad has no interest in the poor of Ahwaz and the Ahwazi Arabs despise his government, as shown in the recent muncipal elections. Pro-Ahmadinejad candidates failed to achieve any significant support despite a successful boycott campaign by his opponents which saw turn-out fall to around 40 per cent. His visit to Ahwaz is not welcomed by the local population."