Demonstrated Ahwaz Municipality, the capital of workers
Arabstan province (Khuzestan), southwest of Iran, in front of the municipality of the region Building 4 of the city, on Wednesday, in protest against the repression of a demonstration carried out last Monday, due to non-payment of their salaries for three months, where police suppressed and the security forces this gathering force and arrested 24 workers of protesters totaling 70 people.
According to the agency, "ILNA" Iranian unions, the demonstrators demanded the release of their colleagues who had been transferred to "Spedar" prison and has been placed in the cells of serious crimes and that they feared for their lives.
Iranian Revolutionary Court and issued an order to extend the period of detention of these workers on charges of organizing an illegal gathering, after a complaint from the mayor.
The agency quoted the head of the workers organization in Ahvaz, AQA Yar Hosseini, as saying that the situation for workers in the municipality of the province worrying and it will be organized and stops protests to demand their rights every week.
Hosseini called on officials in the province to deal with the Municipality of Ahvaz workers better and Exchange dues rather than pursue them and arrest them.
For its part, the human rights organization Ahwaz published, the names of some of the detainees are as follows: 1_mansour Alpartya2_th Afrawi 3_kazem Laoa4_hassan Hyadr5_ Hamid Hewish farm 6_kazem Mzrah7_musy Soare8_aly Ahmadi Fr9_adnan Magdm 10_ Hussein Mnsouri11_ Nasser DHIMI 12_aly Bjeeh13_ Jassim Port Ahmadi 14_abdalkarim Talba15_ Sayed Adnan Mousavi 16_abdallah Slimani17_kazem La18_hassan Magdm 19 _ Jawad masts.
The organization condemned the arrests, which she described as "arbitrary and illegal" and "suppression of peaceful protest for workers over delayed salaries", and demanded the "release of those hard-working workers immediately and unconditionally," the statement said.

Unemployment and deprivation

Ahwazi Arabs live on the region contains about 90% of oil and gas resources in Iran, as well as industrial and agricultural enterprises, natural resources and major rivers, but they suffer from higher poverty, unemployment and deprivation rates, according to official statistics, Iran.
On May 28, the oldest worker in the agricultural town, in the province of Ahwaz, set fire to himself, as a result of government's delay in the payment of his salary and his colleagues for a period of 6 months.
There have also been similar cases of poor workers set fire to themselves to protest the mishandling or not they fulfill their rights or due to widespread unemployment.

United Nations condemns

The report of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon on the human rights situation in Iran, Tehran denounced the repression of Ahwazi Arabs and the continued persecution, and that during the 70th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York last September.
The report of the Secretary-General to the continued marginalization and repression against Ahwazi Arabs and the Iranian authorities attempt to change the demography of the region, and the continued arbitrary arrests and the killing of peaceful demonstrators.
And dealt with paragraph 58 of the report the tragic situation of the workers as well, saying: "facing ethnic minority groups restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, for example, were arrested about 1,000 people in the March 17, 2015 to protest the plight of Arabs from Khorramshahr (Fries) named Younis Asakereh, set fire to himself in response to harassment by local authorities has been repeatedly with respect to the licensing of the booth, which was selling the vegetables and fruit, and claimed that he died after refusing to provide proper medical treatment to him, it is reported that most of the demonstrators were released after signing a pledge, moreover, in from mid-March to April 2015, he was arrested and detained nearly 100 of Ahwazi Arabs, including activists and several minors, in the wake of peaceful protests organized in the wake of the tenth anniversary of the uprising of the marsh. "
As stated in a footnote on page 22 of the report: "In April 2005, Ahwazi Arabs took to the streets to protest against the government's policies which allegedly aimed at changing the ethnic composition in the province of Khuzestan (Arabistan - Ahvaz), and it was reported that the protests, which lasted two weeks, taken a character blistering, where more than many of the demonstrators were killed, and since then, the Ahwazi Arabs celebrating the uprising protests across the region. "
At the UN recommendations made to Iran, it came in Recommendation 73: "Secretary-General urges the Iranian government to promote and protect the rights of all persons belonging to religious and ethnic minorities in the Republic of Iran, and to address any form of discrimination against them."