In an act of vengeance and in a bid to intimidate and terrorize the people of Ahwaz (southwest Iran), the mullahs' anti-human regime left the charred corpses of a number of those arrested during a September 16 demonstration in the city outside their families' home.

On September 16, people in Shelangabad, Mollah Shia, Khashayar and Kamplou districts in the city staged demonstrations and blocked Khorramshar – Nord Township. The protests led to clashes with the suppressive forces in which a number of young men were arrested. After murdering the detainees under torture, the mullahs' henchmen left their charred corpses outside their homes.

This heinous crime aroused enormous rage and hatred among the people of Ahwaz. Those in the city's Arab quarters have refused to enroll their children in schools as a show of protest. The city is reported tense. In order to prevent the spread of protests, officials have dispatched suppressive forces from other regions to the city.

Following the six-day uprising by the people of Ahwaz last April, the mullahs' criminal agents had thrown those detained into the Karoun River after brutally torturing them. Some of the corpses were later pulled out of the river by fishermen.

The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of international human rights organizations, especially the United Nations General Assembly, to the dramatic rise in suppression in Iran, glimpses of which have been demonstrated by these horrifying atrocities. It also calls for the referral of the case of human rights violations in Iran to the United Nations Security Council for the adoption of binding sanctions against the ruling theocracy.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 26, 2005