A 50-year-old Baloch woman, who went to the Zahedan Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs for administrative work related to her husband’s identity papers, was insulted and beaten by a male agent because of her protests and refusal to undergo a body search.
On Sunday, April 14, Fariba Safarzaei, a 50-year-old Baloch woman, along with her son, Idris Yar-Ahmadzehi, and her husband, Mikael Yar-Ahmadzahi, went to the Zahedan Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs located on Amirkabir Blvd.
Upon entering, a male guard said Mrs. Fariba Safarzaei had to be physically searched. When she resisted the order and her son also objected the method of the search, the agents at the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs severely beat them.
The agents not only refused to follow up Mikael’s birth certificate issues, but also confiscated the birth certificates of the children and even Fariba’s documents.
Hundreds of thousands of Baloch people who live in Iran have been denied birth certificates despite trying for years to resolve this issue.
When they go to the relevant agencies, they face discrimination, insults and humiliation from the personnel, and are finally forced to give up the pursuit of obtaining their birth certificates.
