The flowing is the most recent report published by Shahin Khiavi, the head of the AHRAZ- Association for the Human Rights of the Azerbaijani people ( South Azerbaijan)

“Many Azerbaijani civilians have been arrested by the security agents from the beginning of the recent protests against petrol price hike and unfavorable living conditions. Due to internet shut down and not having access to free media since 16 th November 2019, there is no clear information regarding their situation. We should add that despite the fact that the central prison of Tabriz has capacity for only 2000 prisoners, currently, more than 7000 people are kept in this prison. According to our contact with their families and friends we could confirm that 73 Azerbaijani civil rights activists are among the arrested people.
The name and the location of the arrested people are as follows:
Tabriz:

1. Arash Farhadzadeh
2. Hadi Hossainnejad
3. Salar Mirzaei
4. Nima Radifi
5. Morteza Ebadi
6. Abolfazl Pourjamal
7. Morteza Lotfi
8. Shahin Valipour Fard
9. Vahid
10. Akbar Karimpour
11. Omid Khodai
12. Amin Bozorgi
13. Nader Pourhaji
14. Mohammadhossain Etemadpour
15. Ali Amiri
16. Farshad Valipour
17. Farhad Valipour
18. Reza Khosroshahi (released temporarily)
19. Salar Mirzaii
20. Shayan Herisnejad
21. Said Qaemmaqami
22. Sirus Vahedi (released temporarily)
23. Saed Shirazi
24. Mohammad Talesh
25. Milad Allahverdizadeh
26. Shahin Valipour
27. Mohammad Akbarzadeh
28. Ali Akbari (released temporarily)
29. Mojtaba Poursaleh
30. Behruz Farid Gulluja (released temporarily)
31. Habib Khataii
32. Milad Rasouli
33. Samad (From Qoshachay)
34. Saleh Kamyari (released temporarily)
35. Babak Hosseini Moqaddam
36. Davoud Shirnejad
37. Ayyub Shiri
38. Rouzbeh Piri
39. Shahin Barzgar
40. Yashar Piri
41. Akbar Mohajeri
42. Faraz Norouzi
43. Mohammad Mahmoudi
44. Hojjat Mokhtarzadeh (Transferred to Tabriz Prison)
45. Akbar Rasekhi
46. Atilla Zare
47. Asghar Kazemi (released temporarily)
48. Shahriar Ahadzadeh
49. Alireza Baghban
50. Continues
    Urmia:
51. Ali Azizi (released temporarily)
52. Salar Taheri (released temporarily)
53. Davoud Shirinejad
    Zangan:
54. Ghaffar Rezaiyan
55. Mohammad Ghaffari
56. Akbar Ramazani
57. Majid Fakhri
58. Alireza Moharrami
59. Hamid Doosti
60. Bahram Jafari
61. Continues

Qoshachay (Miandoab):

1. Tohid Khademi
2. Ahmad Abedi
3. Ilqar Mehrasa
4. Afsaneh Abbasi
5. Pedram Alinejad
6. Ehsan Tizvir
7. Arman Tizvir
8. Continues
   Tehran and Karaj:
9. Mansour Fathi
10. Saleh Ekrami
11. Ali Ebrahimi
12. Continues
    Ahar:
13. Morteza Shokri
14. Continues
    This list is not complete and AHRAZ is trying to provide a comprehensive list soon.
    According to our contact with the families of some of the prisoners, AHRAZ noticed clear human rights violations by the security agents at the moment of arrest of these prisoners. The security agents created fear and chaos in front of their families while arresting them. Some examples of these violations are:
    ● Security agents have arrested an Azerbaijani activist Akbar Mohajeri in his home in Tabriz while his two small kids were present at the moment and were observing the way they arrested him and one of his kids is suffering from the shock happened in that time.
    ● After arresting an Azerbaijani activist Mohammad Mahmoudi, the security office has summoned his wife and daughter forcing them to confess against him.
    ● The interrogator has detained his family members temporarily while they were asking about the reason that why he does not release Meysam Jolani, an Azerbaijani activist who got arrested in Ardabil. Meysam Jolani was supposed to be released temporarily with a bail. His family members got released later by the order of judge.
    Some of the families of the prisoners around Azerbaijani provinces of Iran informed us that the detainees had a chance to call their family only on the first day of their detention and after that they did not have any permission to call their families. Therefore, families are concerned about the detainees’ situation. We should add that according to the families none of the detainees had access to lawyer and they have been deprived of seeing their families. Some of the families reported us that some of the detainees got tortured during their detention. The following detainees suffered from torture during their detention:

1. Akbar Mohajeri
2. Mohammad Mahmoudi
3. Ayyub Shiri
4. Babak Hosseini Moqaddam
5. Yashar Piri
6. Shahin Barzgar
   Association for the Human Rights of the Azerbaijani people in Iran “AHRAZ” request the Iran’s officials to cease the unlawful arrests and provide fair trial for the arrested people. The officials should assure that the arrested people are having their lawful rights such as having
   access to lawyers and meeting their families. “