On June 13th, workers from the Ahwaz Steel National Group succeeded in releasing 46 detainees and they got some of their demands. Arrested workers have been released on bail of 50 million tomans. But according to the latest news released by the Free Trade Union of Iran, 10 other members of the national group of workers, Karim Siyahi, Saeed Shabati, Amir Hizzawi, Mohammad Falahi, Abdul Rahman Saki, Eskandari’s Answer, Mohammad Ali Jimaei, Mahmoud Khosroshahi, Ali Taheri And Sajjad Hossein Pourfi are still in detention due to the private plaintiff and breaking glass of the representative office of the city. Against these repressions, the united group of workers has said that the June 11protest was all of them protesting, and they called for the release of other detainees. In this regard, the workers Follow up their detained colleagues on June 14, gathering in front of the governorate. The campaign for the release of imprisoned workers Congratulations the release of 46 detained National Group workers to the Ahwaz Steel to their families, the national group, and everyone.
Campaign for the release of imprisoned workers strongly condemns the brutal attack by the law enforcement force the gathering of the national group workers on 11 June and the beating of detained workers and calls for the immediate and unconditionally, Release of all detainees
Security files for arrested workers from the Ahwaz Steel National Group should be immediately blocked. Summons and threats must be stopped. And the law enforcement officers and the guards of the Islamic regime must apologize for beating the workers and attacking their gathering Rally, the strike is one of the basic rights of workers. The protest of the workers of the National Steel Group continues for, the job insecurity and the risk of losing it, and their other demands at the head of all the immediate release of their remaining detainees.
We strongly support the demands and struggles of the workers of the Ahwaz Steel National Group.
14, June, 2018
Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran,
Coordinator: shahla.daneshfar2@gmail.com