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Updates as October 7, 2008- IASWI
· Growing campaigns for Afshin Shams’ freedom
· Alborz Tire Workers vow further actions
· A call for solidarity and financial support, by Workers of the Gharb–Baft Carpet Company
· Growing solidarity and joint actions!
· A Recent interview with Parvaneh Osanloo! Mansour Osanloo returned to the notorious Rajayi Shahr prison because “he talks”, Parvaneh was told by a judge!
· Support LabourStart Act NOW Campaign!
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Growing Campaigns for Afshin Shams’ Freedom!
The Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations in Iran organized a number of activities and events across the country in support of Mr. Afshin Shams, a worker activist who has been imprisoned for the past three months. These events took place in a number of cites in Northern and Western Iran and the following demands were put forward by workers:
- Free Afshin Shams immediately and unconditionally!
- Repeal the whipping and jail sentences against Sanandaj May Day participants!
- Put an end to intimidation, threats and prosecution of worker activists, including workers of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Company and others.
- Stand in solidarity with fellow workers in Haft Tapeh, Alborz Tire, and textile companies of Kurdistan and brick kiln workers.
- Condemn all allegations and charges against workers and labour activists in Iran .
Background: Mr. Afshin Shams was arrested in July 2008. Mr. Shams is a labour activist, a member of “Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ organizations”, a member of the “Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi” and a member of ”Caricaturists Society”. See: http://www.komitteyehamahangi.com/
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Alborz Tire Workers Vow further Actions
Alborz Tire workers gathered outside the Ministry of labour in Tehran on October 5th, 2008. Also, on Thursday, October 2, 2008, over 400 workers of Alborz Tire Company staged a rally outside the Ministry of Labour in Tehran . Security forces prevented workers from entering the Ministry’s building; however, after a few hours a deputy minister appeared in front of workers claiming that the state would loan one billion toman (about US$1,043,000.00) to the company. Alborz Tire used to be state-owned, under National Iranian Industries Organization, but got privatized in 1990s. Workers have demanded about 6 months of unpaid wages as well as the expulsion of the management of the company. Workers also announced that this company already owes tens of billions of tomans to the Social Security Organization and the Sepah Bank; thus this money will be useless for workers and they demanded the government take over and full payment of wages. Alborz Tire workers have been organizing numerous protest actions and strikes in the past few months. Since they have no established union or any other established independent labour organizations, they elected 20 workers as their representatives to pursue their demands. On October 6th, workers rejected the Ministry’s plan and vowed to rally outside the Parliament next week with their families if no effective actions were to be taken by the authorities. Among slogans that day, one said “workers have not been paid wages for 6 months, what about you Mr. Minister?” Over 1200 workers are employed by the Alborz Tire Manufacturing Company.
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A call for solidarity and financial support
By Workers of the Gharb–Baft Carpet Company
Workers of the Gharb–Baft Carpet Company in Sanandaj have been laid off by their employer. Although these workers complained to Labour and Social Affairs Office and won job reinstatement, the security forces called them agitators and forced them out of the factory. Following that, the employer provided fabricated documents and announced the dissolution of the company. Subsequently, the employer appealed the decision of the Labour and Social Affairs Office, as the result of which the *Disputes Board approved the termination of employment of all these workers.
According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Labour Code, the decision of the “Disputes Board shall be final and binding with immediate effect.” This means workers have been left without any legal support. Basically, all the laws have been in favour of the employer.
Workers of Gharb Baft Carpet Company have been without financial support and wages during this time and they are extremely desperate as their rents are not paid and they were not able to afford their children’s back to school supplies and clothes. These fellow workers have called on their colleagues in Iran and around the world to support their struggle for saving their jobs and to secure their most basic needs.
Concerned labour activists and sympathizers are encouraged to provide financial support to Gharb-Baft workers directly by depositing money into their joint account in Iran , which is as follows:
030419702007 Account number:
Type of Account: SIBA
Account names: MR. Saeid Habibzadeh and Mr. Seyed Hassan Vahedi
Bank Melli Iran (BMI), Golshan Branch, Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province , Iran
Workers of the Gharb–Baft Carpet Company
Distributed by: The Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organizations
*According to the Sec. 160 of the IRI’s Labour Code, the Disputes Board of a province shall be composed as follows:
- three workers' representatives, to be chosen by the Coordination Centre of the Islamic Labour Councils of the province, or by the Centre of Workers' Guild Societies or by the Assembly of Workers' Representatives of the units of the region;
- three employers' representatives to be chosen by managers of the units in the region;
- three government representatives, namely the Director General of Labour and Social Affairs, the Governor, and the Chief of the Justice Department of the locality or their representatives.
Since there is no independent unions or councils of workers in these dispute boards, as the Islamic labour councils are in fact government-sponsored agents, in reality workers have no genuine voices in these dispute boards whatsoever; furthermore, even if workers were genuinely represented in the dispute boards, since the majority of the board members are the representatives of the anti-worker government and employers, their helpfulness for workers is highly doubtful. (Comments by the translator, IASWI)
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Growing Solidarity and joint actions!
Workers of Gharb–Baft Carpet, Parris Textile and Sanandaj Textile companies have been making coordinated efforts in recent weeks to fight back against lay offs, factory closures and non-payment of wages. They have jointly organized protest actions outside the Kurdistan Governor’s office and the branch of the Ministry of labour in Sanandaj during mid September. They were joined also by Shahoo factory workers and other colleagues in Sanandaj Despite the lack of independent labour organizations, councils or federations, these workers have been able to transform their isolated struggles, organize joint jeneral assemblies and build bridges with their colleagues in other factories, not only in Sanandaj but also in Tehran with Alborz Tire workers, etc.
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Gholamreza Gholamhosseini has been freed from detention
Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, an Executive Board Member of the Syndicate of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Company, who was arrested on June 24, 2008 and had been incarcerated in Evin prison, was released on bail on September 16, 2008. Mr. Gholamhosseini’s bail was set at $100,000,000 Toman (about US$104,000). He is expected to appear in court in near future to face charges.
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A Recent interview with Parvaneh Osanloo
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/show_news.pl?country=Iran
Mansour Osanloo returned to the notorious Rajayi Shahr prison because “he talks”, Parvaneh was told by a judge!
Mansoor Osanloo, the union activist and leader who has been imprisoned in the past two years on the charge of organizing the independent Tehran ’s Bus Drivers Union, is being kept in the maximum security criminals’ ward of Rajayi Shahr prison where the most notorious criminals are being held. In the recent months, despite his serious heart and eye condition, Mansoor has been denied medical care among other things. Mansoor’s wife, Parvaneh Osanloo, explained the current situation in an interview that was published online this week.
Parvaneh expresses her amazement upon hearing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim in last week interviews during a UN visit that all prisoners in Iran are tried publicly and are never denied representation by defense attorneys. This was clearly not the case for Parvaneh’s husband; listening to Ahnadinejad’s pretensions in front of the foreign media, Parvaneh wonders why her husband has been denied basic rights such as medical care for so many months despite his failing health.
“After several months of delay, my husband was finally taken to hospital on the September 20th” Parvaneh says, hoping to receive medical treatment for both an infection in his eye resulting from a recent operation and for his dangerously high blood pressure. In the hospital and in transfer, Parvaneh explains “he was put in handcuffs and shackles.” This made the situation so traumatic that the medical doctor in the hospital decided to write a letter to the prison officials requesting that they “refrain from using such instruments” because “it causes too much stress” on a patient with a heart condition.
All this happened after Mansoor was denied medical care earlier this month and was instead transferred to a maximum security prison facility and was denied any communication with outside for several days. The transfer was explained to Parvaneh as being conducted under orders from “the head of the Province of Tehran ’s Security Council” and “the Head of Iran’s Prisons Association.” Parvaneh was told by the judge that Mr. Osanloo has been transferred to the Rajayi Shahr prison because he talks.
Doctors had concluded previously, after medical examinations, that Mansoor needed to spend at least 6 weeks in rehabilitation, Parvaneh explains. However, he has been so far denied even a single day of medical leave from prison.
As far as working with the Islamic judicial system of Iran goes, Parvaneh explains that although she has been in contact with several defense attorneys, she has realized that these attorneys cannot do much for her husband as the Iranian government and judicial authorities categorically ignore any effort concerning Mansoor.
“Mansoor has spent 18 consecutive months in prison now” Parvaneh says, and “much as we understand the economic hardships that the union members are grappling with in their everyday lives, we wish they could have done more to make Mansoor’s case visible to the authorities.”
Parvaneh, now the sole source of income for Osanloo family, currently has to work several shifts a day and use the time that has been designated as the annual “paid holiday time” to follow up on the situation of her husband.
“Mansoor is in jail not because he wanted to” Parvaneh says, “but because he stood up for the rights of his comrades and co-workers; defending the rights of the working people is not a crime and therefore, my husband has done nothing illegal or against the national security. Everything that he has done is legal and legitimate.”
Summarized and translated from the original source in Farsi: http://www.shahrgon.com/index.php?news=2024
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The Final Declaration of the
4th International Trade Union Conference
The 4th International Trade Union Conference has with the attendance of trade unions, trade unionists and progressive workers from 14 different countries gathered in Gonen-Turkey during 23-25 May.
During the two days, our conference has as well as unpacking and evaluating problems, demands and experiences of the working class and trade union struggle; also provided the opportunity to assess certain lines of struggle and mobilisation against existing problems.
To: General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Dear Guy Ryder,
Last year was a year full of misery, unemployment, dismissal and temporary and blank-signed contracts for Iranian workers. As a result of the difficult economic situation resulting from the miseries of the global capitalist system, last year came to an end while Iranian workers and wage earners were struggling with the extreme hardship. The livelihood of workers has been constantly diminishing. And finally, the Iranian year 1386 (March 21, 2007 to March 20, 2008) ended while the Iranian workers are still facing prosecution for struggling to create their independent organizations. Some examples are the oppression of members of Sherkate Vahed syndicate and the imprisonment of the president of this syndicate while the syndicate’s secretary is pending for the court order to be carried out in the upcoming days. The workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Company were under pressure during past year and some of them have been interrogated and detained. So far, not a single indication of decrease of oppression has been seen.
During the past years, Iran ’s workers have consistently been facing numerous difficulties and arrests for organizing free May Day events. As you know, one example was the May Day celebration in the city of Saqez in 2004, which ended with the arrest of numerous worker activists. As we speak, Mahmoud Salehi is paying the high price of organizing that event with his poor health condition in prison since last year. Mahmoud Salehi is under intensive pressure for his solidarity messages from prison in support of workers’ rights and other social movements and there is no hope for his release at the end of his prison sentence.
While organizing May Day events has been recognized as a basic right in many countries, the worker activists in Iran are still under hardest pressure for these same reasons. The recent humiliating and offensive whipping sentences against worker activists is another sign of rising pressures to prevent workers from organizing international workers’ day freely.
The two international days of action in support of Iranian workers launched by your organization on August 9, 2007 and March 6, 2008, despite their positive effects, have not yet been successful in stopping the repression of worker activists. Therefore, putting pressure on Iran ’s government should continue in a way that results in suspension of suppression and persecution of labour activists. We, labour activists in Iran, expect that you, as an organization that has the creation of free and independent labour organizations on its agenda – to take necessary measures to compel the Iranian government to stop pressures and repression of the workers and labour activists. Workers in Iran demand, and they should be able to freely strive towards the achievement of these demands, to end sacking and dismissals, to stop the practice of temporary and blank-signed contracts, timely payment of their wages, wage increase according to real inflation rates, equal rights between women and men, prohibition of child labour, and more importantly to create free and independent worker organizations.
*The Collaborative Council of Labour Organizations and Activists
2008-03-19
Two days of rally outside Sanandaj Prison and Court to protest Mahmoud Salehi’s continued detention!
Mahmoud Salehi ended his dry hunger strike today after meeting with his family! He has just started his wet hunger strike after 7 days of dry hunger strike in Sanandaj Prison!
Under mounting pressures, government authorities say they will release Salehi on Wednesday!
On March 23, 2008 (Farvardin 4, 1387), in response to a call by the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi, about 200 workers and labour activists, who had come from cities of Sanandaj, Karaj, Kamyaran, Rasht, Tehran, Oshnovieh, Saqez, Boukan..., gathered outside the central prison in Sanandaj to protest Mahmoud Salehi’s continued detention beyond his scheduled 23 March 2008.
Irene Khan,
General Secretary, Amnesty International,
1 Easton Street
London
WC1X 0DW , UK
Fax number: +44-20-79561157
Re: Request for Urgent Action to save Mahmoud Salehi’s life
Dear Ms. Irene Khan,
As you are well aware of, the one-year prison sentence for Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent labour activist in Iran and a representative of bakery workers in city of Saqez, who was arrested following a May Day in event in 2004 and after numerous trials was finally sentenced to one year imprisonment and a three year suspended prison sentence, was going to end on Farvardin 4th, 1387 (March 23, 2008). However, Mahmoud Salehi was taken from Sanandaj Prison to branch 4 of the department of justice in Sanandaj on March 17, 2008. After making Mahmoud waiting for hours, they ordered a temporary arrest against him. They charged Mahmoud with communication and contacts with outside prison and issuing solidarity messages such as one to those on hunger strike on Tir 27th 1386 (July 18, 2007) and also in support of freedom and equality seeking university students. Immediately after this unjust order of arrest, Mahmoud went on dry hunger-strike to protest the violation of his rights. He has refused taking his vital prescribed medications and has announced that he will continue his total strike until he is freed from prison.
According to the latest reports, Mahmoud’s blood pressure has been at maximum 16 and minimum 12. If his minimum and maximum blood pressures get closers or evens, his remaining kidney would fail completely and his life would be seriously endangered.
We, members of the Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi, who are activists in Iran , are asking Amnesty International as well as Doctors without Border and labour unions and human rights organizations to increase pressures on Iranian authorities to immediately release Salehi and facilitate his treatment effectively and urgently. As the Committee in Defense of Mahmud Salehi, we hold the authorities of the Iranian government responsible for Salehi’s life. They must be hold accountable and liable for anything that might happen to Mahmoud.
Sincerely,
Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi
March 20, 2008 (Farvardin 1st, 1387)
cc: International Trade Union Confederation
Doctors without Border [Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)]
International Transport Workers’ Federation
Labour and human rights organizations
Salehi Declares Dry Hunger-strike
Monday March 17, 2008- According to the Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi, Mr. Salehi was taken from Sanandaj Prison to branch 4 of the department of justice in Sanandaj on March 17, 2008. After making Mahmoud waiting for hours, they ordered a temporary arrest against him. They charged Mahmoud with communication and contacts with outside prison and issuing solidarity messages such as the one to those on hunger strike on Tir 27th 1386 (July 18, 2007) and also supporting freedom and equality seeking university students. This order was issued while Mahmoud’s one-year prison term was going to end on Farvardin 4th, 1387 (March 23, 2008), and his family and friends were expecting his release soon.
Immediately after this unjust order of arrest, Mahmoud went on dry hunger-strike to protest these unjust actions of government authorities to keep him in prison.
The Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi has strongly condemned this new order to keep Mahmud in prison and demanded the unconditional and immediate release of Salehi.
Salehi’s health got seriously deteriorated last week while in jail. He completely passed out and was taken to hospital for a short period but was sent back to jail again. Salehi’s health does not allow him to be on hunger strike and his life would be at great risk; however, it is very clear that the government authorities are determined to keep him in prison and deny his freedom.
More updates to follow shortly.
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Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Presidency,
Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection,
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: + 98 21 649 58 80
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
I am writing this letter to express my outrage over new charges against Mahmoud Salehi, who has been in Sanadaj’s central prison since April 9, 2007. Mr. Salehi, a founding member and the former President of the Bakery Workers’ Association of the city of Saqez and a well-known labour activist in Iran, has been sentenced unjustly to one year imprisonment and a three year suspended prison sentence for his labour activities.
On Monday, March 17, 2008, the judiciary authorities in Sanadaj charged Mahmoud with connecting with outside prison and sending solidarity messages to progressive students and other prisoners. They put Mahmoud under temporary arrest while he was supposed to be released from prison on March 23, 2008. In response to this unjust order, Mahmoud Salehi has declared dry hunger strike effective immediately. It’s very important to emphasize that Mr. Salehi is currently suffering from a life-threatening kidney disease. He only has one kidney, and that kidney is functioning at about only 10 percent of capacity.
I am writing this to condemn this outrageous action on the part of your government and calling on you to release Mahmoud Salehi immediately and unconditionally as he is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of organizing the 2004 May Day demonstration and his right to freedom of expression and association in connection with his labour rights activities. I also demand that Mansour Osanloo as well as all other labour and student activists are released immediately and unconditionally.
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Send Copy of your Protest Letters to:
Leader of the Islamic Republic:
Ayatollah Sayed *Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader
Shoahada Street
Qom, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir OR istiftaa@wilayah.org
Fax: 011 98 251 7774 2228
Head of the Judiciary:
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Justice Building
Panzdah-Khordad Square
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: 011 98 21 3390 4986 (may be difficult to reach)
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir
Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Institutions in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland, Fax: +41 22 733 02 03, E-mail: mission.iran@ties.itu.int
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International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran
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The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and their affiliates along with colleagues of the Global Unions Federations are organizing an international action day on March 6th for workers’ rights in Iran and the freedom of Mansour Osanloo and me (Mahmoud Salehi). For my part, I gracefully appreciate such militant actions.
There is no avoidance of the struggle for the creation of independent workers’ organizations!!
Workers’ movement has grown in the context of aggravation of economic crisis, factory close downs, mass dismissal of workers, excessive increase of inflation that lowered the working people’s purchasing power, and generally widening of the class gap… as the result of all this Workplaces have turned into a battle field of class struggle for workers in order to meet their demands. Worker activists were raised and taken their roles within such struggles.
The close relationship between these fed-up masses and progressive workers has helped labour activists to adapt their views and behaviors to the realities of life and struggles of workers. Consequently, they have conveyed the proper ways of thinking and acting towards mass workers. Living and working with their co-workers, activists are telling them that the only way out of this terrifying misery, from poverty and starvation, from unemployment, from collective dismissal, and so on, is to fight with the capitalist system and to organize independent workers’ organizations. They tell their colleagues that an independent worker’s organization will empower them against the harsh onslaught of capitalism; that with their labour organization, they will be in a better position in their battle with capitalists; that they can set their wages up from a powerful position. Through their independent organizations, workers can establish the achievements of their struggle step by step.
Dear honorable and hard-working colleagues and fellow workers!
As the result of the efforts of truthful activists of labour movement, international rights’ organizations are now recognizing us as a working class with legitimate demands. As one of the labour activists, who is imprisoned in this capitalist country, I am proud to see such a day in the name of workers in Iran because I now know that the world’s working class has never easily accepted the imprisonment of these activists and has always fought for their freedom. They will not let the persecution and imprisonment of workers to become an obstacle or barrier in their rightful struggle.
On March 6th, I will be joyful, even behind the bars of my cell, dreaming of unity and solidarity amongst workers. At this day, workers in Iran should be cheerful while their enemies would grieve!
I will see myself among you, arm in arm, by your side and fighting with you; and I, along with you, will emphasis that there is no avoidance of the struggle for the creation of independent workers’ organizations!
Mahmoud Salehi- Central Prison of the City of Sanandaj
March 04, 2008
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The Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi and the Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers report that the appeal court in the city of Sanandaj has sentenced 11 workers who had participated in a May Day 2007 event to 10 lashes and 200,000 toman each as a financial penalty. These 11 workers, who were arrested on May Day 2007 celebration in Sanandaj city, were originally sentenced to 91 days in prison and 10 lashes each. They were accused of disturbing public order and participating in an illegal gathering by both civil and revolutionary courts of Sanandaj. Their names, who are mostly members of the Unemployed Union, are as follows: Khaled Savari, Eghbal Latifi, Yadullah Moradi, Tayeb Mollaee, Fars Goilian, Sadiq Amjadi, Habibollah Kalkani, Mohiuddin Rajabi, Tayeb Chatani, Sadiq Sobhani and Abbas Anadyari. Also Sheys Amani and Sediq Karimi, both members of the executive board of the Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers, have been sentenced to two and half years jail time but these charges have been appealed and no final decision has yet been made. The Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers will launch a complaint with the ILO and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) about all these cases, especially the whipping sentences.
On February 16, 2008, Sediq Amjadi was whipped and forced to pay 65,000 toman. He was supposed to pay 200,000 toman, but this amount was reduced because he had previously spent 9 days in jail.
On Monday, February 18, 2008, two other workers, Fars Goilian and Habibollah Kalkani, received 10 lashes and also paid financial penalties.
The court’s verdict is so appalling that many workers and organizations have strongly denounced and condemned it; legal experts and even some of the pro-government officials have expressed concerns with it. This is the first time that labour activists have been whipped following a court order, although some women’s right activists have received such sentences before. Labour, women and student activists have been beaten and brutally attacked, tortured and even executed by security forces in countless occasions in the past 30 years in Iran but this is the first time a court has passed and carried out whipping sentences against labour activists.
February 7, 2008
Ms. Louise Arbour
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais Wilson
52 rue des Pâquis
CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland
RE: Mahmoud Salehi
Dear Ms. Louise Arbour;
On January 28, 2008, my spouse, Mahmoud Salehi, a well-known labour activist and political prisoner, was taken to the government’s medical examiner for the second time in recent months. It seemed that it had been decided that doctors, including the hearth and kidney specialists, at the Tohid hospital in city of
Leader of the Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader,
Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran,
Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir
21 December 2007
Mahmoud Salehi – Release on humanitarian grounds
Your Excellency,
On behalf of The Swedish Trade Union Confederation, Swedish LO, I request you to take urgent action to ensure that Mahmoud Salehi’s many health problems be properly diagnosed and that he be seen by qualified specialist health professionals and provided with appropriate medical treatment outside prison
January 10, 2008- According to the news release issued by Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi today, Mahmoud is taken back to jail again on Thursday, January 10,. The angiography result showed a block in one of the major vessels of his heart.
January 9, 2008- According to the latest report by the Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi in Iran , on Wednesday, January 9, 2008, Mahmoud Salehi was transferred to Tohid Hospital from Sanandaj’s Central Prison
The Campaign of the Activists of Iranian Workers’ Movement Abroad* called for a week of solidarity (August 4-11, 2007) in support of workers’ movement in Iran and for the immediate and unconditional freedom of Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi. Furthermore, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) jointly called for an International Day of Action in solidarity with Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi on Thursday 9 August.
The Campaign
July 10, 2007- Mansour Osanloo, the president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, was kidnapped by plain clothes agents in the evening of Tuesday, July 10, 2007. According to the information the IASWI has received from the activists of the Syndicate in Iran , Mansour Osanloo was stopped today around 7:00 p.m.
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Madadi Freed Without any Conditions!
July 5, 2007- There are various campaigns in Iran for the immediate release of Mahmoud Salehi, one of the founding members of the Bakery Workers Association of Saqez and a prominent labour activist in Iran
Latest Updates: Salehi’s Dangerous Health ConditionsMr. Sharif, the lawyer of Mahmoud Salehi, could not meet his client.
June 20, 2007- Najibeh Salehzadeh, Mahmoud’s spouse, and Mohammad Abdipour, one of the Saqez 7 labour activists, have reported that Mahmoud was transferred to Tohid Hospital in Sanandaj under heavy security on Sunday, June 17th and after medical examinations he was sent back to the prison again. Salehzadeh reports that in her last visit Mahmoud seemed very sick and his face, hands and stomach were swelling.
On Tuesday, June 19
June 13, 2007- Mr. Sheys Amani, the president of the Dismissed and Unemployed Workers’ Union , was freed on 50 million Toman bail (US$54,000) on June 12th, following delays in his release since June 9th. The authorities had attempted to hold his release without any justifiable reasons but his family and colleagues had been protesting, demanded his immediate release. The authorities did not release Amani until late afternoon on the 12th when they literally forced over 100 people waiting outside the prison for Amani to leave the area.
Sheys Amani’s Release Has Been put on Hold!
Mahmoud Salehi’s has vowed to go on hunger strike
An Evening of Solidarity with Workers in Iran
On May 13, 2007, an evening of solidarity with workers in Iran , which was organized by the Committee in Support of Workers in Iran-Toronto, was held at the North York Civic Centre. More than one hundred community and labour activists participated in the event.
Demonstration in Front of the ILO Conference in Geneva
Protesting the Presence of the Agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran as Workers’ Delegates to the ILO Conference!
Free Jailed Worker Activists Now!
June 8, 2007
No to imperialist Reactionaries ! No to the Reactionary Regime
of the Islamic Republic!
A call for participation in international protests in front of the G8 summit.
From the 6th to
To: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders
International Office
Rue de Lausanne 78
CP 116
1211
Dear Sir/Madame,
My name is Najibeh Salehzadeh, Mahmoud Salehi’s wife.
Osanloo Sentenced To 5 Years Imprisonment!Salehi’s Health is Worsening!
May 28, 2007- Tehran revolutionary Court, Branch 14, have issued a prison sentence of five years against Mr. Mansour Osanloo, the president of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company.
worker news from Iran
SANANDAJ
05/01/07
Hundreds workers celebrated in front of department of labor on the occasion of the May 1st. in the course of that celebration the security forces made an attack on workers. As the result of that wildly action a few workers were wounded. One of wounded workers is BEHZAD SOHRABI. This person is an Iranian workers’ activist. Also, the regime forces arrested some of the workers.
May 23, 2007- According to the Committee In Defense of Mahmoud Salehi, which is formed in Iran, the prosecutor’s office of the City of Saqez had agreed to allow Mahmoud Salehi a temporary leave on May 22, 2007; however, the prosecutor’s office of Sanandaj and the Chief of the Sanandaj’s Prison have not granted the leave and the request for the leave was postponed until the Prison’s Council would make a decision in a month.
Iranian Workers Demand the Dismissal of the Representatives of the Islamic
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