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Saturday 06 August 2011Labor Activists Persecutions
According to the reports by “the Coordination Committee to Aid Formation of the Workers Organizations in Iran”, Vafa Ghaderi and Yadollah Ghotbi, two members of the committee arrested on May day have been fined 900 dollars each. They had spent 12 days in prison and freed on bail for $50,000 and $30,000 each. Pedram Nasrollahi, a worker activist, has been sentenced to two years in prison “with lashes”. The sentence has been postponed for five years now. Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, the labor activist, has been sentenced to five years in prison with lashes. Previously, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison which has now be reduced. Ebrahimzadeh was arrested in June 10, 2010 by the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence and spent several months in solitary confinement in Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh he is also active with the children rights advocates. Ali Nejati, a member of the board of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory Workers Syndicate and its former head has been sentenced to one year in prison. Nejati had earlier spent six months in jail for the same charges and it has been three years since he has lost his job at Haft Tapeh. Gholamreza Khani, an activist with Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate has been sentenced to two months in prison two years since his arrest. The sentence has been postponed for three years. Khani was arrested in the May Day events in 2009 and spent fifty days in prison. Hashem Khastar, the head of Mashhad Teachers Trade Association, was not released following the end of his two year jail sentence. While his family were expecting his release on August 3, he was taken to the revolution court on the day of his release and taken away again under the charge of “disturbing public opinion”. Khastar was arrested on September 2009 and sentenced to six years in prison. His sentence was reduced to two years in the higher court. He was hospitalized last February and went through surgery. He has written three letters to the head of the judiciary on the adverse conditions of the Adel Abad prison in Mashhad where he is being kept. Source: Iran Labor Report |
