Rights Organization delegation shared human Ahwaz (Ahero) on 26 and November 2013 27 meetings of the sixth session of the Minority Affairs Human Rights Council at the United Nations at the Conference Palace in Geneva and these custom session this year the affairs of religious minorities and represents the organization in these meetings all of Saleh Hamid and Amir al-Saadi.
This and threw representatives of Ahero in this session the words in Arabic and English on religious minorities oppressed in the Arab Ahvaz province, and that the text of the speech of Mr. Saleh Hamid:Thank you, Madam President, thank you to Mrs. Rita Isaac expert competent minority issues I want to talk here about religious minorities in Ahvaz province, southwest Iran, and we have in the province two parties suffer from discrimination and persecution, and are the Mandaeans and Sunni Muslims. persecuted Mandaeans in Ahvaz province continuously and despite the fact that their numbers in the province up according to non-governmental statistics nearly 70 thousand people is that the Iranian Constitution does not recognize them and their rights and may stated in Article XIII of the Iranian constitution that religions officially recognized in Iran in addition to Shiite Islam (the state religion) is, Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian, have been exempted by Sabian. The non-recognition of Balsabih Almendaian religion does not return to only religious reasons and sectarian, but there is another reason makes the government not to recognize this religion and is purely political reasons because they are of the fabric of Ahwazi Arab community, they are in addition to suffering from national oppression like all sons of Ahvaz province, they suffer religious persecution Say counterpart at the hands of the republic authorities Islamist which deprives them of their rights and promoting hatred and slander against them, prompting many of them to emigrate and to leave the country and the search for a safe haven and a decent life and to Ahiolh without exposure to further deprivation and persecution and insults. The people of this peaceful community in fact suffering from persecution National boat and religious and social, and therefore this deprives them of the majority of their rights as citizens in rights and transactions and manage their lives. being persecuted Sabean in Ahvaz in time, which claims some Iranian officials moderation and call for dialogue among civilizations and rapprochement between sects and the smell of racial and sectarian discrimination against various components national and religious in Iran is continuing in various forms and images. They put out propaganda openness with the outside world, but repression at home continuously in a more ugliness. The second oppressed minority understanding of the Sunni Arabs in Ahvaz province, where it is to prevent them from setting up their religion or build their own mosques and imam of the mosque, the only remains of the Sunnis in the Abadan area Sheikh Abdul Hamid al-Dossari banished to a remote area after it was released from the prison where the authorities had imprisoned him for six years and closed only mosque for the year in the city of Abadan, which al-Dossari was an Imam in it. complain Year Iranians General of the policy of discrimination against them, but Sunni Arabs are the most persecuted because of their suffering from national oppression, as well as the ongoing sectarian conflict in the Middle East. The regime of Iran seen as always as a threat to national security, the fact that the children of this minority share with neighbors doctrine and dogma. That year are treated as the parish is not the treatment of the Constitution of the citizens of the Islamic Republic deprives the Sunni of assume senior positions in the State Kmensb presidency and the presidency of the Shura Council (parliament) Not to mention the position of the Supreme Leader. The current Iranian government and devoid of any Sunni minister as none of the members of the governing body of the Shura Council, a Sunni member of one.The members of the Constitutional Council, which controls the number of its members, twelve members, six of whom are appointed by the Supreme Leader and six others nominated by the head of the judiciary and present them to Parliament, which approves them, those members all of whom are Shiites, not including a Sunni one. There are a lot of examples and evidence of the discriminatory policy practiced against the year. In addition to the Sunni minority in mainly in Ahvaz province, there are thousands of Ahwazi Arab citizens who have changed Mzhbm of Shiism to Altsenn and that the phenomenon of Altsenn increased recently among the youth, because Rose reaction to the religious state model failed to Iran and reasoning on it that the Arabs of Ahvaz, although the majority of the doctrine of Shiites, but they are subjected to national oppression and racial discrimination only because of Arab nationality and authorities continue a campaign of arrests and intimidation against Hola young people to prevent them from practicing their rituals and religious rites and still hundreds of young people a year in prison only because of their residence mass prayer or Aguetinahm books about Sunni Islam. and the Iranian regime is making great efforts to curb the spread of this phenomenon through the religious establishment and fora deployed, as well as through visual media and audio and reading & Networking social networking and websites and broadcast continuous and all this propaganda in order to maintain the legitimacy of the sectarian system structure.authorities were working to broadcast propaganda and lies and falsification of facts attempt to link the issue of Ahwazi Arab people struggle sectarian conflict in the Middle East region and in order to divert attention from what suffering of the Ahwazi Arab people as a result of national oppression policies and racial discrimination and operate media outlets, which oversees most of the intelligence services of the Revolutionary Guard or the Ministry of Intelligence on highlighting the sectarian conflict without addressing the suffering of the Ahwazi Arab people and the continuing national oppression and racial factor. Those young people who are to change their beliefs and even Shiite citizens who reject the dictatorship of the velayat-e faqih and they're against extremism and calling for the separation of religion from politics and focus on highlighting the persecution policies and Blackout and broadcast superstition and repression of freedoms in the name doctrine and religion and counterfeiting Alhakaig policy pursued by the Iranian regime. The regime Iran to respond to calls for freedom of belief and doctrine and respect for the rights of minorities and raise the discrimination, repression, intimidation, violence and arbitrary arrests and torture urgent, trials and executions. and of claims that would recognize the rights of religious minorities and sectarianism are the amendments to the Constitution and the Penal Code and the Civil Code the country which discriminate against Sunni Muslims and non-Muslims of the Sabian Mandaeans. We call on the international community from this rostrum to exercise pressure on the Iranian government in order to eliminate discrimination, harassment and persecution of non-Muslims Kalmndaiaan and Muslims from Sunnis as well as ethnic minorities. and is required the immediate release of the detainees of the year and other religious minorities and to allow the construction of houses of worship, especially of the Sunnis in Ahvaz and all other regions. likes authorities should recognize and respect the right of citizens to freedom of belief, including the change doctrine freely without being subjected to the threat of imprisonment and retaliatory sanctions. We appeal the major countries that do not boil down to negotiations with the Iranian regime's nuclear file and to take advantage of this opportunity to put human rights violations file and the issue of discrimination against minorities, and find solutions for their protection in the framework of relations and bilateral dialogues and multilateral and claim Iran's pledge to the International its commitments which they have signed. We also renew our call for pressure on the Iranian government to allow the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed to see up close for the tragic situation and persecution
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