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Arbeideraktivister er dømt til pisking i Iran!
11 arbeideraktivister i byen Sanandej i Iran er dømt til pisking for deres aktivitet i 1. Mai arrangement i fjor. Dommen er praktisert overfor 3 av dem og 8 andre venter på pisking! Alle er kjent med praktisering av barbariske lover og regler som henging, steining, pisking og mye mer under det islamske regimet i Iran. Men det er første gang arbeideraktivister blir dømt til pisking i en offisiell domstol. Arbeidere i Iran er provosert og har protestert mot det slaveritids domene. Vi i WPI ber alle arbeiderorganisasjoner og menneskerettighetsforkjempere fordømme de barbariske og middelalderske handlingene mot arbeider aktivister i Iran og sende protestbrev til iranske myndigheter. For mer informasjon se i vedlagte brev. Protestbrev kan sendes til: Supreme Leader:
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei Islamic Republic Street
Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran, Iran The Head of the Judiciary:
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Vennligst send oss en kopi til informasjon. International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
May Day activist fined and whipped in Iran 10 others await a similar fate
18 Feb 2008 Seddigh Amjadi, one of the workers detained at last year’s May Day ceremonies in the city of Sanandaj, has been fined and whipped, according to a report by the National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers in Iran (Ettehadiye e Sarasari e Kargaran e Ekhraji va Bikaar www.ettehade.net). On Saturday 16 February, while reporting to Branch 2 of the Court of Administration of Sentences, Seddigh Amjadi was detained on the order of the judge and given 10 strikes of the lash on the spot. His wife was ordered to pay 65,000 Tomans in fine.
In a statement, WPI strongly condemned this barbaric act and called on people in Iran and around the world to protest in the strongest possible terms against this medieval savagery.
Amjadi has already spent 9 days in prison following his arrest last year.
The sentence against Amjadi came in a ruling by the Appeals Court of the Kurdistan Province against 11 worker activists arrested in last year’s May Day in the city of Sanandaj. All but one of the workers were sentenced to fines and lashes. Abbas Andaryani was ordered to pay fines. The 11 workers are:
1- Seddigh Amjadi (fine and lashes) 2- Abbas Andaryani (fine) 3- Tayyeb Chatani (fine and lashes) 4- Fares Gavilian (fine and lashes) 5- Habibollah Kale Kani (fine and lashes) 6- Eghbal Latifiollah (fine and lashes) 7- Tayyeb Mollaee (fine and lashes) 8- Yadollah Moradi (fine and lashes) 9- Mahiyoddin Rajabi (fine and lashes) 10- Khaled Savari (fine and lashes) 11- Seddigh Sobhani (fine and lashes)
Following the brutal whipping of Amjadi, it is feared that the sentences against the other workers may be carried out any time soon.
To condemn the sentences and stop this outrage, please send your letters of protest to the Islamic Republic government in Iran:
Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Seyed
Ali Khamenei Islamic Republic Street Shahid Keshvar
Doust Street Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection Tehran, Iran
The Head of the Judiciary: Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroudi
Please send a copy to WPI’s International Labour Solidarity Committee for info.
www.kargaran.org www.wpiran.org www.rowzane.com
International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (ILSC-WPI)
Head office: Co-ordinator: Shahla Daneshfar shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com Public Relations: Bahram Soroush bahram.soroush@gmail.com Around the world: Australia: Arsalan Nazeri ilscaustralianb@optusnet.com.au Belgium: Hossein Pishehesan workersiniran_belgique@yahoo.fr Canada: Mehran Mahbobi workersiniranca@yahoo.ca Finland: Abdol Golparian workers_iniran@yahoo.com Germany: Reza Nouri workeriniran_de@yahoo.de Norway: Saber Rahimi rahimi37@yahoo.com Sweden: Mamad Amiri workersiniran_se@yahoo.se UK: Shiva Mahbobi workersiniranuk@yahoo.com
International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
Two more workers whipped in Iran Union complains to the ILO
21 Feb 2008 A further two workers, who were arrested at last year’s May Day ceremonies in the city of Sanandaj, have been fined and whipped, according to a report by the National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers in Iran (Ettehadiye e Sarasari e Kargaran e Ekhraji va Bikaar www.ettehade.net).
Fares Gavilian and Habibollah Kalekani were detained and whipped on Tuesday when they attended the Court of Administration of Sentences in Sanandaj, following a summons.
Last Saturday, Seddigh Amjadi was beaten with ten strikes of the lash when he attended the court.
The sentences of lashes and fines come in a ruling by the Appeals Court of the Kurdistan Province against 11 worker activists arrested in last year’s May Day in Sanandaj. The workers are:
1- Seddigh Amjadi 2- Abbas Andaryani 3- Tayyeb Chatani 4- Fares Gavilian 5- Habibollah Kalekani 6- Eghbal Latifiollah 7- Tayyeb Mollaee 8- Yadollah Moradi 9- Mahiyoddin Rajabi 10- Khaled Savari 11- Seddigh Sobhani
In a letter to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers requested the ITUC to lodge a formal complaint with the ILO. It said:
“Whipping workers for taking part in May Day ceremonies is a most inhuman action aimed at destroying the gains of the world working class, for which millions of workers around the world have given up their lives and endured much hardship. The issuing and carrying out of the medieval sentence of whipping for workers in Iran is a warning to the world working class, and we expect that you dear friends and workers of the world will strongly and firmly react to it”.
In a statement yesterday, the union said the remaining sentenced workers had decided not to heed the summons for appearance at the Court of Administration, and will instead, together with their families, assemble outside the Court should they be threatened with detention by the security forces. It called on its members to join the families of the sentenced workers in protests.
ACTION REQUESTED:
Please publicise, as widely as possible, the news of this outrageous brutality by the Islamic government in Iran, condemning it in the strongest possible terms. Letters of protest may be sent to any or all of the following offices of the Islamic Republic government. Please forward a copy to WPI’s International Labour Solidarity Committee for info:
Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Seyed
Ali Khamenei Islamic Republic Street Shahid Keshvar
Doust Street Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection Tehran, Iran
The Head of the Judiciary: Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroudi
www.kargaran.org www.wpiran.org www.rowzane.com
International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (ILSC-WPI)
Head office: Co-ordinator: Shahla Daneshfar shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com Public Relations: Bahram Soroush bahram.soroush@gmail.com Around the world: Australia: Arsalan Nazeri ilscaustralianb@optusnet.com.au Belgium: Hossein Pishehesan workersiniran_belgique@yahoo.fr Canada: Mehran Mahbobi workersiniranca@yahoo.ca Finland: Abdol Golparian workers_iniran@yahoo.com Germany: Reza Nouri workeriniran_de@yahoo.de Norway: Saber Rahimi rahimi37@yahoo.com Sweden: Mamad Amiri workersiniran_se@yahoo.se UK: Shiva Mahbobi workersiniranuk@yahoo.com
LETTER
From: The National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers of Iran To: International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Re: Sentences of lashing for workers participating in May 1st actions in Iran
18 Feb 2008
Dear Friends,
As you are aware the police and security forces assaulted last year’s peaceful May 1st rally in the city of Sanandaj, battered workers, and arrested 13 of them. Among them were Mr. Shays Amaani and Mr. Seddigh Karimi, President and Executive Committee member of our union, respectively. They were released on a $50,000 bail each after 42 days in detention. The court sentenced them to two-and-a-half years’ imprisonment. We appealed, but the Court of Appeal has not yet given its verdict.
Mr. Khaaled Savaari, Vice President of the union, was also among the detainees, the majority of whom were members of our union. This group were released after 9 to 12 days in detention, and the Lower Court sentenced each to 91 days’ imprisonment and 10 lashes. Our union strongly protested against this verdict, and did so too in writing. It addressed its objection to, among others, the Judiciary and Members of the Islamic Majles (National Assembly), asking for the verdict to be overturned by the Court of Appeal. The Provincial Appeal Court of Kurdistan, however, on 8 Dec 2007 returned a verdict in which the prison sentences of our friends were changed into fines, but the lashing had been upheld. This verdict has been referred now to another court in charge of execution of the sentences.
On 14 Feb 2008 the latter court issued an unofficial summons ordering Mr. Seddigh Amjadi, one of the 11 convicted workers, to appear before it on 16 Feb, with which he complied. The court both forced his family to pay the fine and executed the 10 lashes on him on the spot.*
It goes without saying that in today’s world lashing workers for participating in May 1st actions is an utmost inhuman attempt to annihilate the achievements of the world working class; achievements for which millions of workers from across the world have gravely suffered and even paid with their lives. Issuing and executing the mediaeval verdict of lashing in the case of the workers in Iran should sound the alarm for the world working class as a whole, and we expect you, dear friends, as well as all workers of the world, to respond to it with all possible might.
It should be noted that all this is transpiring against the background of Islamic Republic’s continuing to hold Mr. Mansoor Osanloo, despite his recent eye surgery, and Mr. Mahmood Salehi, despite his grave ailment and frequent passing-outs in prison, thus violating all international standards both within the framework of the ILO, of which the Islamic Republic is a member, and outside it. Iranian authorities, who have so far totally ignored all requests by international human rights and labour organizations in regards to their conditions as well as their innocence, now hand down and execute sentences of lashing in regards to other workers for taking part in the International Workers’ Day rallies!
While we are truly grateful for what you have done so far for the Iranian workers, we also expect you, dear friends in the International Trade Union Confederation, to vehemently protest against the execution of the lashing sentence in the case of Mr. Seddigh Amjadi. We request that you urgently act to demand the ILO and all concerned bodies that the mediaeval verdict of lashing, as well as fine, in the case of Sanandaj workers for participating in May 1st rallies must be overturned immediately. Please register this letter with the ILO as our official complaint, and demand the banning of self-appointed labour representatives of Iran from that organization.
Respectfully,
National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers of Iran E-mail: k.ekhraji@gmail.com
[Translated by the International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran www.kargaran.org]
* Two other workers - Fares Gaviliaan and Habibollah Kalekaani - were flogged on 19 February – Translator’s note
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