Leader of the ASMLA (Arab Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz) group, considered a terrorist movement by the Iranian authorities, Habib Chaab disappeared in October 2020 after going to Istanbul, before reappearing a month later detained in Iran.
On trial since January 2022 for “terrorism” and above all the spread of “Corruption on Earth”, justice announced on December 6 the death sentence of this man aged about fifty years. In November 2020, Iranian television broadcast a video of Habib Chaab, in which he accused himself in particular of a deadly attack which targeted a military parade in September 2018 in Ahvaz, capital of the province of Khuzestan.