12 Jul 2010

Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran

Support campaign to free jailed workers in Iran

A group of labour activists and campaigners in Iran has recently launched "Free Them Now!" a campaign to free jailed workers, to expose their situation and their inhuman treatment in jail and to attract an international awareness toward the attack on workers by the Islamic regimes in Iran. Worker in Iran have increasingly been arrested, tortured, and their activists have been continuously harassed and thrown in jail. Their families have been put under an immense pressure to keep silent.

This Campaign for workers in Iran is aiming:

1. To stop the terror and violence against the workers by the Islamic Regime.
2. To protect worker’s right to be organised and form their organisations.
3. To guarantee worker’s freedom for assembly, meeting, and to hold protests.
4. To safeguard freedom to strike and participation in rallies without fear of being arrested and thrown in prison.

Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran actively supports this campaign, and calls on all concerned individual and organisations, and all trade unions and labour activists to join and support this campaign.

For more information regarding this campaign please see the attached press release.

Shiva Mahbobi
Spokesperson
Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)

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