The Alahwazi Organization for Human Rights strongly condemns the Iranian authorities’ execution, at dawn on Saturday, October 4, 2025, of six Ahwazi Arab citizens under circumstances marked by grave human rights violations and a complete absence of fair trial standards and due legal process.

The executed individuals are:
1. Seyyed Adnan Ghabishawi
2. Mohammad Reza Moghaddam
3. Ali Mojaddam
4. Habib Drees
5. Moein Khanafari
6. Seyyed Salem Mousavi

Despite Human Rights and International Appeals

The executions were carried out despite urgent appeals from Ahwazi and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Council, which called for an immediate halt to the executions and an independent review of the legal procedures involved.
The authorities’ disregard for these calls clearly demonstrates Iran’s contempt for its international obligations and its determination to continue its policy of repression with total impunity.

Amnesty International Report 1
Amnesty International Report 2

A Gross Violation of International Humanitarian Law

The organization reminds that these executions constitute a direct violation of Common Article 3 of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which clearly states:

“The following acts are and shall remain prohibited: violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.”

This article represents a peremptory norm of international law (Jus Cogens), meaning that any violation constitutes a crime that does not lapse with time and forms the basis for international criminal accountability.

Part of a Broader Pattern of Repression

These executions are part of a wider pattern of systematic violations committed by the Iranian authorities against the Ahwazi Arab people, including:
• Use of execution as a tool of political intimidation
• Arbitrary arrests
• Systematic torture
• Suppression of freedom of expression and political activity
• Racial, linguistic, and cultural discrimination

Urgent Demands

The Alahwazi Organization for Human Rights calls for:
1. An independent international investigation into the circumstances of these executions and the fairness of the trials, under UN supervision.
2. Immediate intervention by relevant UN Special Rapporteurs, particularly those on extrajudicial executions, torture, and judicial independence.
3. The imposition of targeted sanctions on Iranian officials involved in serious human rights violations.
4. Documentation of these crimes by international human rights bodies as a step toward referral to competent international judicial authorities.

Conclusion

The Alahwazi Organization for Human Rights holds the Iranian authorities fully responsible for this crime and affirms that continued impunity and international silence only encourage further violations.
This crime will remain additional evidence of the systematic oppression faced by the Ahwazi Arab people in their legitimate struggle for freedom, justice, and dignity.

Alahwazi Organization for Human Rights

Hussain Hazbavi