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IRAN: State Security Force arrest residents of Ahwaz in raids

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NCRI – The Iranian regime’s repressive State Security Forces (Police) in southern city of Ahwaz raided several districts on Thursday evening, arresting a number of youth along with their families.

In one case, they brutally broke into a house in western Ahwaz and arrested all members of the family and took them away. The family’s father, named Ehyal Karim Alhaydari, was sick in bed at the time.

The detainees are: Malek Hayal, Mohammad Hayal, Amin Hayal, Emad Hayal, and an elderly woman.

They have been taken to an unknown location and no information on their whereabouts has been given.

In another incident, the security forces arrested a young man named Amer Silavi on Thursday October 6. Amer Silavi is 34. He is married and has several children. It is said that Amer Silavi has been involved in formation of a human chain to protest against transferring Karun River’s water to Isfahan and other cities.

Also, on the morning of Tuesday October 4, an Aref Navaseri, a poet from Shadegan was arrested for one his poems.