Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Aug 9 Dozens of South Azerbaijan National and civil right  Activists were arrested by agents of the Revolutionary Guard Corps known as “ETELAAT” in the Savalan Mountains and taken to an unknown location on 9th Aug. According to GAMAC “Southern Azerbaijan National Liberation Front” quoted from  Gunaz …

South Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethnolinguistic minority. Predominantly Shiite, with religion being the most important source of collective identity, Turkophone Azerbaijanis had until the 1920s provided numerous dynasties to the Persian thrones. The rise of nationalism in the 20th century gradually breached the image of South …

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 11 August 2018 Index: MDE 13/8889/2018 Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release activist Ebrahim Nouri, as well as anyone else still arbitrarily detained after the arrest of around 120 people in connection with two separate Azerbaijani Turkic cultural gatherings that took …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Aug 3 According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), Mr. Kiumars Islami the South Azerbaijan national and civil right activist was transferred to addicts and the thieves row by the order of the head of Mughan Prison. The South  Azerbaijani activist after the hunger strike has been …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Aug 2 South Azerbaijani women announced their support for the Azerbaijani political prisoners with carrying banners on their hand. The South Azerbaijani national and civil right women in various parts of the city of Qosha-Chai have shown their protest against the Suppression policies of the Iranian regime …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 23 South Azerbaijan national and civil right activist have protested the racist attitude “Prohibition of Native Language Education in Schools” of IRAN Minister of Education by the wide distribution of posters in Tabriz on 23th of July. The Protests of South Azerbaijan people against racist remarks …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 20 A group of South Azerbaijani activists in Ardabil city met with Mr. Abbas Lisani, the prominent Azerbaijani national activist. According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), Mr. Abbas Lisani arrested on the eve of the Babak Castle ceremony by Iranian regime intelligence office and transferred to Tabriz Central Prison …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 14 Mr. Abbas Lisani, a prominent Azerbaijani national activist, was released on bail from Tabriz Central Prison on Saturday, 14th July 2018. Abbas Lisani, the Azerbaijani national activist after 12 days of arrest, was released on bail of 50 million Tomans from Tabriz Central Prison. The …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 11 According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), most of the detainees of the Babak Castle ceremony were released on Heavy bail. The status of 16 South Azerbaijani activists is still unclear. Abbas Lisani, Ibrahim Nouri, Jafar Rostami, Kiumars Islami, Sahand Maali, Abbas Nikrvan, Mortaza Yazdani, …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 9 The representative of the Urmia city urged the chairman of the East Azerbaijan judiciary to release of the detainees of the Babak Castle. Following the protest of the Azerbaijani Turks, Nader Gazipour, the representative of the Urmia, reacted to the illegal detention of South Azerbaijani …