Hussain Hazbavi 
In a shocking escalation of Iran’s ongoing crackdown against the Ahwazi Arab people, Iranian authorities executed six Ahwazi citizens at dawn today, following what human rights organizations describe as grossly unfair trials and serious legal violations.
According to the Ahwazi Organization for Human Rights, those executed were:
Seyyed Adnan Ghabishawi Mohammad Reza Moghaddam Ali Mojaddam Habib Drees Moein Hanafari Seyyed Salem Mousavi
The executions took place despite urgent international appeals from Amnesty International, the UN Human Rights Council, and several Ahwazi and global rights groups, calling for an immediate suspension of the death sentences and a review of the judicial process.
Rights groups say the executions highlight Iran’s systematic use of capital punishment as a political weapon against its Arab minority in Ahwaz, adding that the defendants were denied legal representation, subjected to forced confessions under torture, and sentenced by revolutionary courts lacking independence.
“These executions are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” the Ahwazi Organization for Human Rights said, warning that Iran’s continued disregard for its international obligations “proves the regime’s intent to silence the Ahwazi people through fear and repression.”
According to international law, the executions violate Article 3 common to the Four Geneva Conventions (1949), which prohibits killing and executing individuals without fair trial guarantees. Legal experts stress that such violations fall under jus cogens norms, meaning they cannot be excused or time-barred.
Human rights defenders point out that these latest executions are part of a broader campaign targeting the Ahwazi Arab population, involving arbitrary arrests, torture, suppression of free speech, and systematic discrimination on ethnic and linguistic grounds.
The Ahwazi Organization for Human Rights has called for an independent UN-led investigation, sanctions against those responsible, and urgent international intervention to prevent further executions.
The organization also urged international media and rights institutions to document and expose these crimes, describing them as “another painful chapter in the decades-long persecution of the Ahwazi Arab people.”
