Iran: May 1st

April 30th has a man been hanged in public in Mousa Abad, near Ashtian in Markazi province. The not identified man was sentenced to deatht for Moharebeh (enmity with god) and leading armed robbery.
source: iranhr.net




Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate published the dates of the trials against several incarcerated union activists.
Gholamreza Gholamhosseini 10 May in Shahriar, Morteza Komsari and Ali Nazari May 20 in the public employees court and Reza Shahabi, a member of the Syndicate who has been in jail since June 12, 2010, will also be tried on May 24.

An English translation of an radiointerview given by Jafar Azimzadeh to Deutsche Welle.

A letter of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory Workers Syndicate to the International Labor Organization (ILO) on the firing and persecution of the Workers.

April 20 the workers of Port Imam made an important victory after a strike of 11 days and reached settlements with the management .The agreement was published by the Free Union of Iranian Workers.

source: Iranlabor Report

A May Day Message of Solidarity to imprisoned Iranian Workers, as published in In These Times.
The message is undersigned by Columbia University scholar Hamid Dabashi and 23 other academics, including In These Times contributors Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek.
1 – Ervand Abrahamian, City University of New York, USA.
2 – Kazem Alamdari, California State University, USA.
3 – Kevin Anderson, University of California- Santa Barbara, USA.
4 – Asef Bayat, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA.
5 – Sohrab Behdad, Denison University, USA.
6 – Richard J. Bernstein, The New School For Social Research, USA.
7 – Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota, USA.
8 – Alex Callinicos, King’s College London, UK.
9 – Noam Chomsky, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
10 – Simon Critchley, The New School for Social Research, USA.
11 – Hamid Dabashi, University of Columbia, USA.
12 – Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research, USA.
13 – Amir Hassanpour, University of Toronto, Canada.
14 – John Holloway, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.
15 – Peter Hallward, Kingston University, Canada.
16 – Paul Mattick, Adelphi University, USA.
17 – Behrooz Moazami, Loyola University New Orleans, USA.
18 – Haydeh Mogheysi, York University, Canada.
19 – Farhad Nomani, The American University of Paris, France.
20 – Misagh Parsa, Dartmouth College, USA.
21 – Saeed Rahnama, York University, Canada.
22 – Mehrdad Vahabi, University of Paris VIII, France.
23 – Helena Worthen, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA.
24 – Slavoj Zizek, European Graduate School, Switzerland.

source: freedomessenger.com

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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