[sas-announce] Protest to free jailed Iranian trade union leader tomorrow

[David Broder]

Protest to free jailed Iranian union leader!

12-2pm, Saturday 7 January 2006
BBC Persian Section
Bush House
The Strand
London WC2B 4PH
(nearest tube: Holborn)

Bus workers in the Iranian capital Tehran have called for a worldwide 
day
of action this Saturday, 7 January, to press for the immediate release 
of
their union leader, Mansoor Ossanlou, who is being held without any
charges in Evin Prison.

Labour movement, Iranian exile and solidarity activists will be
protesting outside the BBC’s Persian Section in London to raise the 
issue.

Bus drivers in Tehran will put up a poster on their screens with the 
words
‘Mansoor Ossanlou must be released’ and drive with their lights on all
day.

Ossanlou, the head of the Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus
Company (Sherkat e Vahed), has been held without any charges since 22
December. So far negotiations with Tehran’s Mayor, Mohammad Bagher
Ghalibaf, for his release and over a series of other demands have 
produced
no results.

Activists are gravely concerned that the regime is buying time and is
planning to frame Ossanlou and other activists on trumped up charges.
Following a successful strike on Sunday 25 December in protest at the
arrests, a number of their imprisoned colleagues were released. The
workers have appealed to labour movement organisations around the world
for support.

- Please send your letters of protest to the Islamic Republic President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at ahmadinejad at president.ir and copy to
houzan73 at yahoo.co.uk

- Please come along to the London protest to show your solidarity




		
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