Family of Abducted Baloch Activist Demands Justice at Press Conference in Awaran
The APDF condemns execution of Habib Assiud and calls on the international community to intervene
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The official spokesman for the Ahwazi People’s Democratic Front in a statement on 6 May 2023 condemned the execution of the Ahwazi leader Habib Asyud Chaab and called on the international community to intervene.
The ADPF described Chaab’s execution as another crime by the Persian occupation authorities by hanging the captive, the heroic leader Habib Asyud, after he was kidnapped from Turkish territory.
The ADPF added: “The martyr Habib Asyud was one of the leaders of the Arab Movement for the Liberation of Al-Ahwaz, and he was one of the leaders of the Ahwazis wanted by the Iranian terrorist regime. After a dirty and cowardly operation, he was kidnapped from Turkey in 2020, treacherously transferred to Iran, and executed by hanging this morning.”
The Ahwazi People’s Democratic Front’s spokesman, Mansour Shaya al-Ahwazi, in its statement, said that the crimes of the Persian occupation are a translation of the Iranian enemy’s terrorist policies in occupied Ahwaz and its continuation in killing Ahwazis in cold blood. The Front bears the consequences of this government terrorism against our defenseless Arab Ahwazi people.
The statement further added: “The Front affirms that the Ahwazi fighters and resistance fighters have not and will not be intimidated by these crimes and will not discourage them from continuing the struggle until the liberation of the land and people of Al-Ahwaz.
“The Front calls on the international community and the Arab countries to stand by the Ahwazi Arab people, to intervene in the face of the Iranian occupation’s excesses, and to prevent further genocide against the Ahwazis.”
Habib Chaab was a Swedish-Iranian national who was accused by Iran of being ‘corrupt on earth’.
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said his government had urged Iran not to execute Chaab.
“The death penalty is an inhuman and irreversible punishment and Sweden, together with the rest of the EU, condemns its application under all circumstances,” he said.
