A regime which arrests, jails and flogs workers should not be in the ILO!

Islamic regime of IRAN out of ILO!

Boycott the Islamic Republic of Iran at the ILO conference!

A delegation from the Islamic regime of Iran is attending the annual conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 30th May to 15th June 2012. These people are not the representatives of Iranian workers or people, but of a regime which is a persistent and systematic abuser of workers’ and human rights. This regime jails and flogs workers for organising in unions, for attending May Day rallies and for protesting over pay and conditions. This regime is a horrific abuser of human rights: It executes children and stones women to death and has the highest record, in proportion to population, of executions in the world. Such a regime should not be in the ILO, but in international courts to face charges for its crimes against humanity. This regime should be expelled from the ILO and from all international bodies.

We request all the workers’ groups and all delegates appalled at the abuse of labour and human rights in Iran to walk out of any sessions at which the representatives of the Islamic regime of Iran may want to take the podium and speak. Their mere presence should prompt your immediate walkout.

Just as the regime of racial Apartheid faced international boycott and isolation, so the regime of gender Apartheid and gross labour and human rights violations should be boycotted, and expelled from all international bodies, and first and foremost from an organisation which bears the name of worker.

• Protest the attendance of the Islamic regime of Iran at the ILO conference!
• Boycott the Islamic Republic of Iran’s delegation!
• Call for the release of all jailed workers in Iran!
• Demand the expulsion of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the ILO!

Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran

Further info:

Shahla Daneshfar: Shahla_Daneshfar@yahoo.com
Bahram Soroush: Bahram.Soroush@gmail.com
http://free-them-now.blogspot.co.uk/

30 May 2012

12th Feb: day of protest against executions and solidarity with jailed workers in Iran

Protests in several countries around the world

UK
London
Date: Sunday, 12 February 2012
Time: 1-3pm
Place: Trafalgar Square, North Terrace (outside the National Gallery)
Organisers: Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran & Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran
Contact: Alireza Rashidi : + 44 (0)7712810675
More information: http://www.facebook.com/zendani.siasi?ref=ts

FINLAND
Ekenäs (Tammisaari)
Date: Sunday, 12 February 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Place: Town Square
Organiser/Contact: Walther Metzler (Facebook)
Notes: Walter will bring a poster and will have a candle-lighting ceremony.

SWEDEN
Jönköping
Date: Sunday, 12 February 2012
Time: 9:30am
Place: In front of Migrationsverket
Organiser: Mission Free Iran
Contact: Ali 07 69821211

USA
Washington DC
Date: Sunday, 12 February 2012
Time: 1:00pm
Place: Corner of Wisconsin & M Street in Georgetown, Washington DC
Details: March through Georgetown to raise awareness of ongoing and intensified executions and political imprisonments in Iran.

Those who are willing and able will continue the march to protest in front of the regime offices after the Georgetown action.
Organisers: Mission Free Iran & Women’s Alliance for Change in Iran
Contact: Maria Rohaly, 240-595-2633

BELGIUM
Brussels
Date: 14 February 2012
Time: 4:00pm
Place: In front of Iran’s Embassy - 15 Franklin Roosevelt Street
Organisers: Unity for Iran - Belgium
Contact: euroiranien@gmail.com

Iran: another trade unionist appears before court

4 February 2012

While 11 trade unionists continue to be jailed in Iran, another leader of the Free Union of Iranian Workers has appeared before court in the city of Sanandaj in the west of Iran.

Mozaffar Saleh Nia, a member of the Union’s executive board, was summoned to Branch Four of the Islamic Republic courts on Wednesday, where he rejected all the charges against him. In January Saleh Nia and another colleague, Sharif Saed Panah, were jailed for 15 days for protesting against the plight of homeless working children. They were freed after days of massive protests outside the detention centre by their families, supporters and the people of the city.

The Free Them Now! campaign condemns this latest attack on trade unionists in Iran, and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all jailed workers.

Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran

http://free-them-now.blogspot.com/

For further info, contact:

Shahla Daneshfar: Shahla_Daneshfar@yahoo.com
Bahram Soroush: Bahram.Soroush@gmail.com

اطلاعيه شماره ٤٠

مظفر صالح نیا از اعضای هیئت مدیره اتحادیه آزاد کارگران ایران به دادگاه جمهوري اسلامي در سنندج احضار شد

بنا بر خبر منتشر شده در سايت اتحاد، مظفر صالح نیا از اعضا هیئت مدیره اتحادیه آزاد کارگران ایران ساعت ١٠ صبح روز ١٢ بهمن با احضاريه اي كتبي از سوي شعبه ٤ دادياري دادگاه انقلاب جمهوري اسلامي در شهر سنندج حضور پيدا كرد و بعنوان آخرين دفاعيه تمامي اتهاماتي كه بر او وارد شده بود را رد كرده و فعالين صنفي و دفاع از حقوق انساني و اجتماعي كارگران را حق مسلم خود اعلام داشت.

مظفر صالح نيا در روز ١٥ دی ماه به خاطر اعتراض انسانيش به خوابيدن يك كارتن خواب در كنار خيابان و هواي سرد بازداشت و پس از ١٥ روز زندان به همراه شريف ساعد پناه يكي ديگر از اعضاي هيات مديره اتحاديه آزاد در ميان استقبال پرشور خانواده و مردمي كه براي آزادي آنها در مقابل زندان جمع بودند، آزاد شد.

جمهوري اسلامي فعالين كارگري و فعالين سياسي در عرصه هاي مختلف اعتراضي را دستگير ميكند، تا جلوي سازمانيافتن مبارزات كارگران و كل جامعه را بگيرد. خصوصا اكنون در شرايطي كه جامعه از شدت اعتراض حالتي انفجاري دارد، اين دستگيري ها تشديد شده است. رژيم با اين كار ميخواهد مانع اعتراض كردن، جمع شدن و گسترش مبارزات توده هاي مردم بشود. بايد در برابر اين تهديدات و فشارها ايستاد. اجازه نداد كه فعالين كارگري و معترضان سياسي را چنين به دادگاههايشان فرا بخوانند و مورد بازجويي و محاكمه قرار دهند. بايد تمامي پرونده هاي قضايي اي كه براي آنان تشكيل شده است تماما لغو شود و همه كارگران زنداني و زندانيان سياسي بدون قيد و شرط از زندان آزاد شوند.

كمپين براي آزادي كارگران زنداني

١٤ بهمن ٩٠، ٣ فوريه ٢٠١٢

Shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com

Bahram.Soroush@gmail.com

http://free-them-now.blogspot.com/

Iran: Two trade unionists released, but more arrested

Two worker activists by the name Sharif Saed Panah and Mozaffar Saleh Nia, both members of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, who were arrested earlier this month, have been released on bail. The release follows several weeks of campaigning both inside and outside Iran. The released workers were jubilantly greeted by their family and supporters outside the offices of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj.

However, a number of other trade unionists have been detained, or summoned to the Intelligence Ministry: In Tabriz, Shahrokh Zamani and Mohammad Jarahi were detained while out on bail, while Nima Poor-Yaghoub and Sasan Vahebi-Vash were summoned. Zamani and Jarahi are both members of the Follow-up Committee to Set up Free Labour Organisations. Last August, a court sentenced all four to long prison terms: Zamani to 11 years, Jarahi to five years and six months, Poor-Yaghoub to six years and Vahebi-Vash to six months.

Almost simultaneously in Sanandaj, Sheis Amani, well-known leader of the city’s textile workers and a board member of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, was detained when enquiring about the cases of other jailed workers at the Prosecutor’s Office.

Meanwhile, other trade unionists, such as Reza Shahabi and Ebrahim Madadi, leaders of Tehran’s bus workers’ union, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, member of the Follow-up Committee to Set up Free Labour Organisations, Ali Nejati, leader of the sugar cane workers’ union and Rasoul Bodaghi, from the Teachers’ Trade Association, continue to serve long prison terms for their union activity.

We call on all trade unions and human rights organisations to condemn the latest arrests and the continued jailing of trade unionists, and to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all those detained.

Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran
http://free-them-now.blogspot.com/
For further info, contact: Shahla_Daneshfar@yahoo.com Bahram.Soroush@gmail.com

More trade unionists arrested in Iran

Letter

8 January 2012

To all trade unions and human rights organisations

We are writing to inform you that in the past two weeks there have been a further intensification of attacks by the Islamic Republic on worker activists in Iran.

The latest incident is the arrest this morning of Sharif Saed Panah, member of the executive board of the Free Union of Iranian Workers. This follows the arrest on 5th January of Union member Mozaffar Saleh Nia in the city of Sanandaj, and two weeks earlier of Mohammad Hosseini, a worker activist in Damavand City. All three have been detained for their union activity.

In the mean time, Reza Shahabi, who is a member of the executive board of Tehran and District Bus Workers’ Union, has been admitted to hospital following a ten-day hunger strike in protest against his arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. In a letter from hospital, Shahabi has protested against his treatment as a prisoner while in hospital, with restrictions even on visits by his family, and has said he would refuse medical treatment until the restrictions are lifted. Ebrahim Madadi, also an executive board member of the bus workers’ union, continues to be detained, as are Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, member of the Follow-up Committee to Form Free Trade Unions, Rasoul Bodaghi, member of the Teachers’ Trade Association, and many student and civil rights activists.

We call on all trade unions and human rights organisations to express their revulsion against the latest arrests and the continued persecution of trade unionists and political dissidents in Iran, and to demand their immediate and unconditional release.

Free Them Now!
Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran

http://free-them-now.blogspot.com/

For further info, contact:
Shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com
Bahram.Soroush@gmail.com

5 Nov 2011 International Day of Solidarity with Iranian Workers

30 cities in 13 countries and counting…

SWEDEN

Stockholm
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: In front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Contact: Göran Gustavsson 0704009033 & Faramarz Ghorbani 0765647616

Gothenberg
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Brunnsparken
Contact: Abe Asadi 07317178819

Borås
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2-4pm
Place: Stora torget
Contact: Esmail Mardokhi 0 737 59 85 66

Helsingborg
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2.30-5pm
Place: Stortorget
Contact: Gabi Hosseini 0760879874

Sävsjö
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 11am-1pm
Arian Mirzolfaghari 0700773423
zolfaghariarian4@gmail.com
Details forthcoming

Malmö
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Triangeln
Contact: Hasan Salehi 0703171102
Farideh Arman 0703638088

Karlskrona
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2-4 pm
Place: Ronnebygatan 43 till 47 i Centrum
Contact: Amir Kamrani; amir_ung@yahoo.com 0046704 53 10 47
nasserkhassaee@yahoo.com 0046762835308

UK

London
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 2-4 pm
Place: Trafalgar Sq., North Terrace, in front of the National Gallery
Then at 5pm we will gather outside the offices of the BBC Persian Service, Broadcasting House, 2-22 Portland Place, W1A 1AA
Contact: Behrooz Bahari 07838156819
Alireza Rashidi 07712810675

CANADA

Toronto
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Yonge St & Dundas Intersection
Contact: Yadi Mahmoudi 416-471-7138
hkki.vca@gmail.com

Vancouver
Time: Saturday 5th November, 3-5 pm
Place: Art Gallery, Robson side
Contact: Masoud Arjang 001-6046495453
Vancouver District Labour Council also supports this call

HOLLAND

Amsterdam
Time: Saturday 5 November 2011, 1-3 pm
Place: Beursplein
Contact: Bahman Khani 0651273261

NORWAY

Oslo
Time: Saturday 5th November, 1-2 pm
Place: In front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Contact: Saber Rahimi 0798694001
Abolghasem Kardar 04133-3268

GERMANY

Frankfurt
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 11am-1pm
Hauptwache Rathenauplatz
Contact: Shahnaz Moratab 015774650186

Berlin
Time: Saturday 5th, 2-4 pm
Place: Joachimstaler platz, am U-Bahnhof Kurfürstendamm
Contact: Farzaneh Derakhshan

Cologne
Time: Saturday 5th, 4 pm
Place: In front of Dom
Contact: Mohamad Nemati 01635522356

Hannover
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011 4-6pm
Place: Kropke
Contact: Naser kashkooli 0177 8348592

Würzburg
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 2.30-5 pm
Abdolbaset Soleimani, baset_marx@yahoo.com
Details forthcoming

Hamburg
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 1.30 pm
Place: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Glockengießerwall
Contact: Nazanin Borumand 0172-4044323, Pedram Rezazadeh
017648325613

Dortmund
Time: Saturday 5th November
Contact: Maryam Jabbarzadeh 01786703944
daryagermany@yahoo.de
Details forthcoming

Leipzig
Time: Saturday 5th Nov
Contact: 017629319819
Details forthcoming

USA

Washington DC
Time: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 1pm
Place: 2209 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC (offices of the Islamic regime at the Pakistani Embassy) with march down to Georgetown to hand out flyers.
Contact: maria.rohaly@gmail.com
Organizers: Mission Free Iran & Unity for Democracy and Justice

Philadelphia
Time: Saturday 5th, 1 pm
Love Park, Broad and JFK Street
Contact: Soheila Nikpour 267-439-7185

FRANCE

Lyon
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 4-5 pm
Contact: Payam Azar
Details forthcoming

FINLAND

Helsinki
Time: Saturday 5th, 2- 4 pm
Place: At 14:00 hours we will gather in Helsingin rautatientori and at 14:20 we will start our march towards Narinkkatori behind Kamppi building.
Contact: abroadcommittee@gmail.com

CYPRUS

Nicosia
Time: Saturday 5th November 2011, 10-11 am
Place: In front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Contact: Amir Masoud Khaghani, 96484292
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com
jonbeshhoghoghpanahjo.cyprus@gmail.com

Limassol
Time: Saturday 5th November
Location forthcoming
Contact: Amir Masoud Khaghani, 96484292
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com
jonbeshhoghoghpanahjo.cyprus@gmail.com

Larnaca
Time: Saturday 5th November
Location forthcoming
Contact: Amir Masoud Khaghani, 96484292
amirmasoud.khaghani@gmail.com
jonbeshhoghoghpanahjo.cyprus@gmail.com

JAPAN

Tokyo
On 5 and 6 Nov, Jamal Saberi, Worker-communist Party of Iran's cadre and an activist of the "Free Jailed Workers Campaign", will be speaking at the Railway Union meeting. Labour union representatives from Brazil, USA and South Korea will be present in the meeting, and the topic of the meeting is jailed workers in Iran.

GREECE

Athens
Time: Saturday 5th November, 5 pm
Place: Athens Polytechnic in Patission Street
Contact: Naser Aghbashloo 00306957954975

DENMARK

Copenhagen
Time: Saturday 5th November, 2-3 pm
Place: In front of the Embassy of Islamic Republic
Engskiftevej 6 - 2100 københavn
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This list is regularly updated. For the latest info, please see:
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