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Congressman Mark Steven Kirk (Illinois, Co-Chair of Iran Working Group) and Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas) and representatives of 20 Congressmen attended the hearing. Mrs. Fahta Zamani, head of Association for Defending Azerbaijani Political Prisoners said despite that Azerbaijanis were the biggest people of Iran, Mullah Regime violated their common rights and did not let them receive education and speak in their native language. She said Azerbaijani Human Rights activists were persecuted in Iran and 20 of them had been arrested

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Washington. Husniyya Hasanova –APA. US Congress has held a hearing on the situation of Azerbaijanis and other ethnics residing in Iran, as well as Kurds, Bahais, Arabs, Belujis, APA US Bureau reports.

Congressman Mark Steven Kirk (Illinois, Co-Chair of Iran Working Group) and Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas) and representatives of 20 Congressmen attended the hearing. Mrs. Fahta Zamani, head of Association for Defending Azerbaijani Political Prisoners said despite that Azerbaijanis were the biggest people of Iran, Mullah Regime violated their common rights and did not let them receive education and speak in their native language. She said Azerbaijani Human Rights activists were persecuted in Iran and 20 of them had been arrested on the false accusations. The Human Rights defender said local population was sensitive in respect of own language and history, recently Azerbaijanis held large-scale protest actions against describing them as cockroach in one of the Iranian newspapers. Representatives of other nations living in Iran have also spoken at the hearing.

Numerous Azerbaijanis also attended the congressional hearing devoted to the situation of Iranian ethnics. Co-founder of recently established USAzeris Network Adil Baguirov told APA US Bureau, 77 congressmen, 22 senators and 83 local media organizations had been informed via Network about the congressional hearing during a day.

, Voice of a Nation

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