Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof

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Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof (b. 1951 in Hoveizeh, Iran) is a prominent Iranian Arab journalist and intellectual living in Tehran. He is also an advocate for the Iranian Arab community of the Khuzestan province, dedicated to raising awareness of their plight. Bani-Torof is a member of the Association of Iran's Writers and has translated many works from Arabic to Persian. 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. He was released in June 2005.[1]

[edit] 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]

[edit] See also

• Politics of Khuzestan
• Ethnic minorities in Iran

[edit] 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