Solidarity with workers in Iran
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9 January
JR-Rengo in Japan sends its protest letter to President Ahmadinejad.
7 January
JRU in Japan sends its protest letter to President Ahmadinejad.
3 January
Vahed Syndicate holds its regular Executive Board meeting successfully.
31 December
LabourStart advertises the ITF online campaign.
30 December
AIRF in India sends its protest letter to President Ahmadinejad.
The Victorian Branch of the RTBU in Australia sends its protest to President Ahmadinejad.
FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands releases its press statement on the situation in Iran >>
29 December
UGT in Spain sends its protest letter to the Iranian authorities.
TWU Local 100 (New York) sends its protest letter to President Ahmadinejad.
28 December
Ebrahim Madadi is summoned to the Revolutionary Court where his three and a half year sentence, which had been effectively suspended, is reinstated. He is now in Evin Prison, Section 209.
The ITF releases its Action Alert and appeals to all those who have been campaigning to promote workers' rights in Iran to support Ebrahim Madadi by sending a protest to the Iranian government. Take Action: Send a Protest Letter >>
The Austrian union VIDA sends its protest letter to President Ahmadinejad.
27 December
According to reports Ebrahim Madadi is taken into police custody from the North Tehran Branch of the Employment Office by plain-clothed security personnel who possessed a court order. Madadi is believed to be in a police branch tonight and is due to appear before the judge tomorrow morning (28 December). Ebrahim Madadi is the Vice-President of the ITF-affiliated Tehran Bus Workers' Union (Vahed Syndicate). Meanwhile, two Executive Board members of the union have also been verbally summoned by the secret police.
Prior to this incident, trade unions condemned the arrest of Mohsen Hakimi, a member of the 'Iranian Writers' Association' and the 'Coordinating Committee to Form Workers' Organisations' who was detained by the secret police for unknown charges on 22 December. He is now being held in Section 209 in Evin Prison. At the same time, an auto worker, Bijan Amiri, at Pars Khodro factory was also arrested for unknown charges.
The ITF immediately releases its "Protest Statement on arrests of trade unionists in Iran" demanding the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release the three unionists as well as the bus union leader, Mansour Osanloo and education worker, Farzad Kamangar without delay.
Read the ITF Protest Statement >>
The British TUC also sends its protest letter to the Iranian Mission in the UK >>
La Fraternidad in Argentina sends its protest to President Ahmadinejad.
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