The government of prison and whipping should be boycotted. Following the complaint of the employer of Iran’s National Steel Group, 17 protesting workers of this company were sentenced to prison and flogging in Ahvaz on September 27, 2023.
The official ILNA news agency reported that the Revolutionary Court of the southern city of Ahvaz ordered the workers to pay a fine of 2.5 million tomans ($50) as a substitute for serving three months in prison on the charge of “disrupting public order by inciting disturbance and controversy.” . The convicts were also sentenced to 74 lashes each. This punishment won’t be carried out unless they are found guilty of crimes during a period of three years.
The “crimes” of these workers is that they protested the low level of salaries and protested the non-implementation of the job classification law.
The names of these workers are: Mehdi Valipour, Khalid Sharifi, Raeed Obidavi, Tariq Khalafi, Sidersol Harag, Nader Hardani, Ali Naderi, Mehdi Nagrawi, Masoud Heydari, Abdul Hossein Hamidipour, Mostafa Obayat, Abdul Karim Siyahi, Kazem Heydari, Ali Elahifar, Hadi Vailizadeh. , Hassan Javed Hamoudi and Gharib Hawizari.
The Islamic regime is a government that constantly violates the most basic rules and international rights of workers and people. To sentence the protesting workers to whipping and imprisonment, should be widely condemned.
Free Them Now (FTN) calls on all workers unions and humanist organizations to protest against this ruling and strongly condemn the Islamic regime for violating the most basic rights of workers and demand the expulsion of this barbaric regime from the ILO.
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September 28, 2023