Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof (b. 1951 in Hoveizeh, Iran) is an Iranian Arab journalist and activist living in Tehran. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Hoveizeh (also Huzgan) is a city in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran near the border with Iraq. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Iranian Arabs (عربان ايرانی are the Arabic -speaking peoples of Iran. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of He is also an advocate for the Iranian Arab community of the Khuzestan province. Khūzestān (خوزستان is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. Bani-Torof is a member of the Association of Iran's Writers and has translated many works from Arabic to Persian. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language As his surname indicates, he is from the "Bani Torof" (in Arabic meaning "Children of Torof") Arab clan.

On 25 April 2005 he was arrested at his home by security forces in connection with the Arab youth riots in Khuzestan earlier that month and held at Evin Prison with other Iranian journalists and dissidents. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Evin Prison ( is a Prison in Iran, located in northwestern Tehran. He was released in June 2005. [1]

Quotes

• "(The) Arabs of Khuzestan, as a nation or an ethnic group (or whatever you like to call it), are inseparable parts of the Iranian nation. " [2]

See also

• Politics of Khuzestan
• Ethnic minorities in Iran

External links

• News report from Reporters Without Borders
• Report concerning arrest from Human Rights Watch/IFEX
• Report concerning arrest from IranMania
• Report concerning arrest from Cyrus News Agency
• Report concerning arrest from UNPO
• Interview with Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof
• The Identity and Ancestry of the Indigenous Khuzestani Arabs of Iran by Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof

This article focuses on the politics of Khūzestān Province, an oil-rich and ethnically diverse province of southwestern Iran. This article focuses on ethnic minorities in Iran and their related political issues

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