Iran: propagate

Next Monday and Tuesday, May 25 and 26, this blog will not appear in the Dutch version. (proefondervindelijk).



Four worldwide Unions have called a worldwide action day on June 26 to demand justice for Iranian workers.
The ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation), EI (Education International), ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations), backed by Amnesty International, are forming a coalition for the event to secure justice and trade union rights inside Iran.
They are calling for the immediate and unconditional release of jailed trade union members and leaders including Mansour Osanloo, Ebrahim Madadi and Farzad Kamangar. They also call for annulment of the one year prison sentences against the five leaders of the Haft Tapeh Sugarworkers' Union, as well as the release of trade unionists arrested in Tehran on May Day.
source: ei-ie.org



The strike last week of the workers at Iran Khodro Car Company was ended successful.
The workers immediate demands were payment of their unpaid wages (productivity and bonuses) and to switch workers on temporary contracts to contracts of the Iran Khodro Company itself.
At first the new management would not pay the wages and bonuses and suspended paying, but confronted with the workers’ protest, it paid the wages to stop the protest spreading.When this was not enough and the strike widened, the management announced that all workers will be covered by the public commitment.
source: iswn.org


The spokesman for the judiciary said that an aide from Shirin Ebadi is charged with "propagating against the Islamic system".
Narges Mohammadi was banned from Tehran Airport May 10, when she and Sorayah Azizpana wanted to go to Guatemala to speak at a conference there on the role of women in democracy.
source: indopia.in


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl