Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 10 Three South Azerbaijani national and civil right activists were sentenced to jail and flogging because of attending at “Babak Castle” ceremony. These three South Azerbaijani activists have sentenced to “Four months of imprisonment and 40 lashes” during unfair judgments of the Iranian judiciary court in Kaleybar city. …

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 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 4 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 …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 2 According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), many South Azerbaijani activists have arrested on the eve of the Babak Castle ceremony in different cities of South Azerbaijan by  Iranian regime intelligence office on Monday 2nd of  July 2018. The name of some South Azerbaijan national and …

  South Azerbaijan Question in Evolution: Identity, Society, and Regional Security-By Emil Aslan Souleimanov and Josef Kraus Iranian Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethno-linguistic 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 …