Rohani genehmigte die Exekution von arabisch-iranischem Poet
22:05:52Der gerade 7 Monate im Amt befindliche iranische Präsident, der mit Versprechen die Wahl gewann und seit New York und Davos die Welt betörte, er sei ein moderater Vertreter des klerikalen Systems der "islamischen Republik Iran" , besuchte am 28. Januar Avahz in der Provinz Khuzestan. Seid 2011waren 14 arabisch sprechenden Menschenrechtsaktivisten in Haft. Im Juli letzten Jahres Verurteilte sie ein einziger Richter des Islamischen Revolutionsgerichtes alle zum Tode wegen "Kampf gegen Gott" und Stiftung von Aufruhr. Bevor Rohani die Stadt Avahz verlies er noch schnell die Genehmigung der Hinrichtungen von Hashem Shaabani und Hadi Rashedi. Hashem Shaabani war ein bekannter Dichter in arabischer und iranischer Sprache. Er hatte an der Uni ahvaz studiert und sich immer wird für die Rechte der Minderheiten eingesetzt. Bei den Unruhen 2009 organisierte der Student sit-ins schrieb einen Blog. 2010 befahl der religiöse Führer, die Minderheiten einzugliedern und der Staatsmacht zu unterordnen. 2011 erfolgten die Festnahmen, 2014 lies der "moderate" Präsident die politischen Gefangenen und friedlichen Kämpfer für die religiösen und Minderheitenrechte erhängen. http://www.aawsat.net/2014/02/article55328417 Rouhani approves execution of Arab–Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani was hanged in an unidentified prison last Monday Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrives to meet with members of a group of ex-global leaders known as the Elders, in Tehran on January 28, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI) London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Last month, Hassan Rouhani, the new President of Iran, made a whirlwind visit to Ahvaz, capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan. According to official media, Rouhani spent much of his time there dealing with “a number of sensitive files” left undecided by the outgoing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. One such file concerns 14 human rights activists who had been in prison for up to two years. When Rouhani took over as president he had them moved from the Karoun Prison in Ahvaz to an unknown destination. There, last July, an Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal with a single judge, Ayatollah Muhammad-Baqer Mussavi, sentenced the 14 to death on charges of “waging war on God” and “spreading corruption on earth” and “questioning the principle of velayat-e faqih” (the guardianship of the jurist). Before he left Ahvaz, Rouhani gave his green light for the executions. The first two executions were carried out last Monday when Hashem Shaabani and Hadi Rashedi were hanged in an unidentified prison. Both men were well known in human rights circles across Iran and had a long record of advocating greater cultural freedoms for Iran’s ethnic Arab-speaking minority, believed to number almost two million. Shaabani, aged 32, was especially known in cultural circles because of the poetry he published both in Persian and Arabic. He was also a founder of the Dialogue Institute that aimed at promoting a better understanding of Arabic literature and culture among Iranians. The institute offered Arabic language classes for a nominal fee and helped with the translation of modern Persian poems into Arabic and vice-versa. Born and raised in Ahvaz, Shaabani attended the Ahvaz University where he obtained a Master’s degree in Political Science. He made a name as a student leader when he led a number of sit-ins and marches to protest against the arbitrary arrests of students and the expulsion of professors in 2008 and 2009, and wrote a blog in which he called for greater freedom of expression and political openness. In 2010 Shaabani moved to Khalafabad to look after his ageing parents. His father Khalaf Shaabani had become disabled after serving in the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–88 when he led one of the first volunteer units to resist Saddam Hussein’s invasion. Regarded as something of a local hero, Khalaf Shaabani was elected as chairman of the town’s Municipal Council. To those who knew him, Hashem Shaabani was a man of peace and understanding struggling to extend spaces of individual freedom within the despotic Khomeinist system. Much of his poetry, both in Persian and Arabic, is in fact non-political, depicting the beauties of Khuzestan. One of his odes is Homage to Karoun, Iran’s largest and only navigable river; in another poem he speaks of “the blonde sun of Khuzestan.” Although he was not allowed to publish books of poetry during President Mohammad Khatami’s eight-year tenure, Shaabani was not prevented from organizing public poetry recitals in Ahvaz and several other Khuzestani cities. Political themes started to feature more openly in his poems after 2010 when Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei ordered a crackdown against ethnic minorities and all those who questioned his claim to represent the will of God on earth. Shaabani was arrested in February 2011, and, according to letters he smuggled out of prison, was subjected to severe torture. In December 2011, he was featured on Iran’s international television station Press TV, run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in which he was forced to confess to involvement in “separatist terrorism,” supporting Ba’athism and questioning the validity of velayat-e faqih. The documentary also claimed that Shaabani had been in contact with former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The head of the state-run IRIB television station and Press TV Muhammad Sarafraz and Press TV newsroom director Hamid Reza Emadi have been identified as the producers of the documentary. The European Union has since imposed a ban on both along with the Islamic tribunal judge Ayatollah Mussavi. In one of his letters from prison, made available through his family, Shaabani says he could not have remained silent against “hideous crimes against Ahvazis perpetrated by the Iranian authorities, particularly arbitrary and unjust executions.” He adds: “I have tried to defend the legitimate right that every people in this world should have which is the right to live freely with full civil rights. With all these miseries and tragedies, I have never used a weapon to fight these atrocious crimes except the pen.” Demanding a retrial before an impartial court, Shaabani concluded his letter by insisting that he had “never participated in any armed activity whatever the motives. I disagree with armed activities if there are other peaceful channels to make demands and express our wishes and aspirations.” Shaabani is not the first Iranian poet to be murdered by the mullahs. The left-wing poet Sa’id Sultanpur was abducted on the day of his wedding on Khomeini’s orders and shot dead in a Tehran prison. Rahman Hatefi, writing under the pen-name of Heydar Mehregan, had his veins cut and was left to bleed to death in the Evin prison. Under President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a plan to kill a busload of Iranian poets on their way to a festival in Armenia failed at the last minute. Nevertheless, Rafsanjani succeeded in eliminating more than a dozen writers and poets. The worst spate of killings happened under President Khatami when more than 80 intellectuals including the poets Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad-Ja’far Pouyandeh were murdered by government agents. Seven Reasons Why I Should Die By Hashem Shaabani For seven days they shouted at me: You are waging war on Allah! Saturday, because you are an Arab! Sunday, well, you are from Ahvaz Monday, remember you are Iranian Tuesday: You mock the sacred Revolution Wednesday, didn’t you raise your voice for others? Thursday, you are a poet and a bard Friday: You’re a man, isn’t that enough to die?
