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"Mr President, Persians only form half the Iranian population. The other half is made up of different ethnic groups.
In August 2010, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination addressed the exclusion of these minorities, of which there are many. All the same, I will run through them for you: mainly, there are the Arabs, the Azeris, the Turks, the Balochs, the Kurds and the Turkmen. Our resolution essentially deals with a small group of Arab Ahwazis, and this group therefore represents a tiny part of the huge problem of ethnic minorities in Iran.
The group concerned is called the ‘April 15 Youth Movement’ and dates from 2005. It holds demonstrations in April each year. In 2011, it seems that these demonstrations resulted in 15 deaths and a number of people being wounded. This had been reported on Facebook and Twitter. This year, another person died and several were wounded, and those mentioned in the resolution – mainly six Ahwazis – were imprisoned.
I should say: ‘were imprisoned and ought to be tried’. Information is very difficult to gather on these cases because it is circulating on social networks but, despite everything, I think that the fact of naming them in point 3 and of saying that they must have a fair trial is a very important step."@en1
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