Intensification of Detention Process of South Azerbaijan National Activists/ Brutal Beating of Activists Reported

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 4

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According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), Three South Azerbaijan national and civil right activists with the name of Kiumars Islami, Faraj Nouri, Morteza Yazdani were arrested in Ahar, Mughan, and Urmia respectively. And the number of detainees and the threat of detention reached 25 till this moment.

 

It should be noted that Many South Azerbaijani activists have arrested on the eve of the Babak  Castle ceremony in different cities in South Azerbaijan by  Iranian regime intelligence office known as Ettelaat since  Monday 2^nd of  July 2018.

The whereabouts of some of the South Azerbaijani activists like Mr. Abbas Lisani is unknown up to now.

According to GAMAC quoted from a reliable source in Ardabil city, the brutal beating Of South Azerbaijan national activists is ordered by the authorities of the Ardabil prison.

According to reports, activists who arrested in Ardabil after being transferred to Ardebil Prison, they are beaten by prisoners for no reason after entering a pre-appointed prison.

The names of the activists being beaten are as follows:

-Ali Vaseghi: Head fracture and bruises and bleeding of the right eye consequently cannot see.

-Rahim Gholami: tooth Broken and Rupture of his lips.

– Saeed Sadeghi Far: he has been damaged from the area of the ribs and has a respiratory problem.

-Mehdi Houshmand: The feet are in contact with the hard object which caused a leg fracture.

The names of the South Azerbaijan national and civil right activists  who  have detained and treated of detention on the Eve of the Babak Castle Ceremony  are as follows:

1. Abolfazl Jani
2. Akbar Aboulzadeh
3. Asghar Akbarzadeh
4. Faraj Nouri
5. Fardin Moradpour
6. Jaafar Rostami
7. Kiumars Islami
8. Mahdi Houshmand
9. Mehdi Zanjir-bolaghi
10. Moharram Kamrani
11. Mojtaba Abdoli
12. Morteza Mohammadi
13. Morteza Parvin
14. Morteza Yazdani
15. Ulduz Qasemi
16. Naser Ali Moradi
17. Nima Abbaspour
18. Rahim Gholami
19. Ramin Jabraeli
20. Saleh Mulla Abasi
21. Siamak Koushi
22. Younes Zareiyun
23. Rashid Daneshjoui
24. Sajjad Bodaghi
25. Abbas Lisani (There is no information about the situation of the well-known Turkish activist Abbas Lisani)

Unfortunately, many news agencies such as BBC news, Radio Farda, VOA and many state news agency have boycotted and  censored   the detention of South Azerbaijan national activists.