Several collapsed and fainted
On the evening of the Thursday, June 15, 2017, the protest of laid off workers of the Aghdarreh gold mine (in West Azerbaijan province) and their families faced with violent attack by the police.
The workers were protesting against layoffs, some of the young people who previously worked in the mine also had attended this gathering and demanded returning to work. According to the reports 13 workers and their family mebers were injured, 3 women fainted and 10 of the demonstrators were arrested.
The laid off miners of Aghdareh demanded to return to work and their temporary contracts to be changed topermanent contracts.
The brutal attack on the rally of miners of Aghdareh is just one example of the crimes of the Islamic regime and its judicial system against the workers and people of Iran. Another such brutality was On March last year when by the complaint of the employer of Aghdareh mine, the workers were taken to the Islamic Court and according to the verdict of the Islamic Republic judiciary in a criminal act, the workers were sentenced to flogging and cash fines, and this barbaric sentence was carried out in May last year
. The rights to protest, assembly and association is the foundation and the basic rights of all workers and everybody.
We call on all the international workers and humanist organisations to condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran for continuous violation of the basic labour rights and brutal attacks on the miners of Aghdareh mine.
We call on all the international organisations and institutions to put pressure on the Islamic regime of Iran and we are demanding immediate and unconditionally release of arrested workers of Aghdareh mine and all political prisoners.
We demand:
-All charges brought against imprisoned workers and teachers activists to be dropped completely.
-Securitizing Workers’, Teachers’, and the General Public’s Protests in Iran should be stopped.
-Trials of workers and all political activists must be stopped and any kind of fabrication of charges against them must be cancelled
. Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran (Free Them Now(
June 17,2017
Shahla Daneshfar, Shahla.daneshfar2@gmail.com
https://free-them-now.com