Protest Iran union repression

Date: 20 August 2008

Sousan Razani, imprisoned unionist

Repression against labour activists in Iran is intensifying. In recent weeks, there have been numerous cases of arrests and jailings.

Most shocking perhaps was the sentencing of two women labour activists (Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi) to 15 lashes and four months in prison -- for the "crime" of participating in a May Day celebration.

Additional cases which concern us include:

• Mr. Abdullah Khani, 40 lashes and 91 days in prison

• Mr. Seyed Qaleb Hosseini, 50 lashes and 6 months in prison

• Mr. Khaled Hosseini, 30 lashes and suspended prison sentence

• Mr. Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish teacher, sentenced to death

• Mr. Afshin Shams, arrested

• Mr. Mansour Osanloo, leader of Tehran's bus workers, in prison since July 2007

LabourStart ACT Now: Call on the Iranian government to immediately release these prisoners and to cease all repression of labour activists.

For further information

Contact:	Eric Lee
Union:	LabourStart
WWW:	http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=416

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