UNODC MUST MAKE ANY COOPERATION WITH IRAN CONTINGENT UPON A MORATORIUM ON DRUG-RELATED EXECUTIONS
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Today, January 23, Islamic regime executed two political prisoners in Ghezalhesar prison. Mohammad Qobadlou, one of the protesters of the “woman, life, freedom” revolution ” along with Farhad Salimi, a political prisoner who was in prison for 14 years, were executed today by ruling Islamic killers.
The execution of these two prisoners exploded the people’s anger and in the social media, inside Iran and in different countries, different sections of the people expressed their anger and disgust at this crime. Inside the prisons, more than 60 political prisoners have published a statement against the execution of these two prisoners and condemned it. Political prisoners in Evin prison announced a hunger strike for Thursday 25th January, to protest these executions and to “stop the executions” in Iran.
Also “Justice Seekers” institution supported the protest movement of these prisoners and asked everyone to turn Thursday, the January 25th into a day of public protests and gatherings against executions. Free Them Now campaign to free jailed workers in Iran supports this call and stresses on the national unity against the executions and repression.
Free Them Now strongly condemns the execution of Mohammad Qobadlou and Farhad Salimi, and regards the death penalty as the brutal and intentional murder by the state, which serves the ruling minority to keep control over people. Free Them Now actively defends the abolition of the death penalty and the absolute end to this type of punishment.
Currently, 20 more political prisoners are in immediate danger of execution in Iran. The Islamic Republic is deeply hated by majority of people in the country. Protests of workers, pensioners, students and different sections of the people are going on every day in a part of the country. The government thinks that with killing and execution, it can prevent the social explosion and the re-emergence of widespread and nationwide anger of the people who want to get rid of this regime.
Getting confessions from prisoners under torture and pressure is a well-known method of the Islamic government against prisoners. Join the global campaign to stop executions and abolish the death penalty.
The execution of political prisoners by the Islamic government must be condemned by all organizations, unions and humanitarian institutions and all people. The Islamic Republic should be boycotted and isolated worldwide due to violating the most basic human standards and using torture, pressure and imprisonment against protesters and prisoners.
Free Them Now (FTN)
January 23, 2024 – February 3, 1402
Message of Peter Tatchell human rights activist in support of a week of campaign against execution is Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out mass executions to maintain its inhumane government and to oppress the uprising of the people of Iran. According to documented reports, 746 people were executed in 2023. It is necessary for all of us to initiate a movement and unite to put an end to these atrocities and senseless murders of innocent people by the Islamic Republic. Iran is only second to China in a number of executions per year while it has less than 1% of China’s population.
As such hereby, we, the signatories of this letter, plan to hold various programs and protests in the week of January 13th to January 20th, 2024, in our cities in different parts of the world. Our activities will include cultural and educational events, street demonstrations and performances, movie screenings, and meetings with government entities, human rights, and international organizations asking them to put pressure on the Islamic Republic. We are aiming to contact progressive unions organizations, and initiatives to educate and attract our local communities about Iranian people’s protest against the mass executions of the Islamic Republic.
Join us to stand together against executions in Iran. With our forces united together, we can make the change. We declare that the execution is a heinous and inhumane punishment and a systematic crime of the government that should be removed from the criminal laws altogether. We demand the immediate and unconditional cancellation of all death sentences and the release of all political-ideological prisoners and all arrested protesters in Iran.
Please E-mail us to join this movement: StopExecutionNow.IR@gmail.com , free.them.now.ir@gmail.com
Or call us at 1-(416)-471-7138
SUPPORTERS (Organizations, Parties, and committees)
- Abolition Action Committee (AAC)
- Abolition of the death penalty- Iraq
- Advocacy Against Death Penalty
- Baloch Activists Campaign
- BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU)
- Bread and Roses TV
- Campaign to defend four Kurdish political prisoners
- Campaign to free jailed workers in Iran (Free them now)
- Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)
- Canadians for Democracy in Iran (CDI)
- Centre for Political Prisoners in Iran
- Children First Now (International Campaign for Children’s Rights)
- Claus BREDOW
- Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran (Austria)
- Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners of Iran- Denmark
- Committee to commemorate the killing of political prisoners in the 1960s- Montreal.
- Communist Party of Iran
- Communist Youth Organization
- Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
- Death Penalty Action
- DVL Italia
- Ejection Council
- Esmail Khoi Foundation
- Flying Fortress Group- Heidelberg, Germany
- FrauLebenFreiheit.Darmstadt- Germany
- Fredsforum Karlskrona (Sweden)
- Free Human Organization (Cologne)
- Hafte magazine
- Hana Human Rights Organization (Hana)
- Hanai Rojhelat
- Human Rights Defense Committee of the Solidarity of Republicans of Iran (Haja)
- International Committee Against Executions (ICAE)
- International Federation of Iranian Refugees (Canada)
- International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR)
- International Federation of Iranian Refugees (Stockholm)
- International Secular Democratic Organization (Vienna)
- Iran Human Rights Organization (Norway)
- Iran protest (Malmo, Lund, Helsingborg)
- Iran Solidarity Ottawa
- Iran Solidarity Toronto
- Iranian community of Newcastle
- Iranian Justice Collective
- Iranian Kurdistan Women’s Organization
- Iranian Kurdistan Women’s Organization (Sweden)
- Iranian Kurdistan Youth Organization
- Iranian LGBTQ+ Rights Group
- Iranian People’s Struggle Support Council (Cologne)
- Iranian United Transformists
- Iranian Women’s Association, Montreal
- Justice Supporters Association
- Khavaran Organization
- Komala party of Iranian Kurdistan
- Kurdaktivister I Malmo
- Kurdish Women Against Gender Discrimination
- L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty
- LE HAVRE movement against the death penalty (France)
- Mahsa Foundation (Denmark)
- Malmokurd Forening
- Mardom Foundation
- Memorial Committee- Toronto
- Neither taboo nor violence against women
- One Law for All) campaigns against Sharia and religious arbitration in the UK, Iran and across the globe)
- Panjere Omid movement- Afghanistan
- Peter Tatchell Foundation (UK)
- Political-Cultural Center of Iranians (Kassel-Germany)
- Pro-Republic Southern Sweden Iranian Society
- Qashqai Freedom Party
- Save Iran (Australia)
- Shahrvand magazine
- Simorgh Center of Quebec
- Social Democratic Union of Iran (Seda Union)
- Society for Human Rights in the 21st Century
- Solidaritat mit iranischen Revolution -Frankfurt
- Solidarity with Iranian Revolution
- Solidarity with Iranians BC
- Supporters of the mothers of Laleh Park (Fresno)
- Supporters of the Women, Life, Freedom Revolution (Washington, DC)
- Supporting political prisoners and abolishing the execution Campaign
- The council of holding actions, Netherlands
- The left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
- The population of social democracy for Iran
- Torkaman Freedom House
- United for Iran (Australia)
- University of Toronto students for a free Iran (UTSFI)
- Voices of Women for Change Organization
- WLF Melbourne
- Woman Life Freedom Network Belgium
- Woman, Life, Freedom Collective, Montreal
- Woman, Life, Freedom Group- London
- Women’s Rights Association – Sweden
- Worker-communist Party of Iran
- Zanan group in Northern California
SUPPORTERS (Activists)
- Abbas Khorsandi
- Abbas Mandegar
- Abdolbaset
- Abdolrazagh Yarzadeh
- Abolfazl Iranshahi
- Aboubakr Mirkhani
- Aboubakr Mirkhani
- Afarin Mohajer
- Afshin Afshinjam
- Afshin Moafi
- Aghil zad
- Ahmad Ahmadian
- Ahmad Hasani
- Ahmad Pirnia
- Ahmad Pourmandi
- Ahmad Salehi
- Ahmad Shams
- Akbar, Karimian
- Ala Salehi
- Alaeddin Farhadpour
- Aleme Naeimi
- Alen Ekbatani
- Ali Asghar Salimi
- Ali Forouzande
- Ali Ghader
- Ali Ghazvini
- Ali Mobaraki
- Ali Moezzi
- Ali Mohseni
- Ali Navrood
- Ali Pournaghavi
- Ali Shakeri
- Ali Tayefi
- Aliasghar Fardad
- Aliasghar Habibzade
- Alireza Ebrahimi
- Alireza Lachin
- Alireza M
- Alireza Marefat Khah
- Alireza Mehrnia
- Alireza Yekta
- Amin Ansari
- Amin Ghaffardindar
- Amir Abbas Ghorbani
- Amir Azmoude
- Amir Ebrahimi
- Amir Mombeini
- Amir Pakbaz
- Amir Tavakkoli
- Amir Zahedi
- Amirali Zare
- Amjad Hosein Panahi
- Anahita Ahmadi
- Anas Rafiei
- Anuta Sjunghamn (Sweden)
- Arash Ahmadi
- Arash Ashraf zade
- Arash Gitou
- Arash Naseri
- Arash Shalchian
- Arash Vaseli
- Arash Yazdani
- Ardalan Faraji
- Arezoo Salehi
- Arghavan Kimiaee
- Arman Mobaraki
- Arman. Azad
- Arne Johansson (Sweden)
- Arsalan Amjadi
- Asadollah Yari
- Asghar Fattahi
- Asghar Karimi
- Asghar Shiri
- Ashkan Khatibi
- Atie Niknafas
- Ava Akhavan
- Ava Mirshekari
- Awin Mostafazadeh
- Ayat Namjoo
- Ayeshe Bizari
- Ayoub Ahmadi
- Azad Farsani
- Azad Mahdiani
- Azad Mostofi
- Azade Abbasi
- Azade Askari
- Azade Nejat
- Azam Hoseini
- Azamat Azhdari
- Azar Arfazadeh
- Azar pooya
- Azar Teheran
- Azim Matoor
- Aziz Bakhtiari
- Aziz Dadyar
- Aziz Latifian
- Azize Lotfi
- Babak Bornaei
- Babak Rahmati
- Babak Yazdi
- Bagher Baeidi
- Baha Arkan
- Bahar Almasi
- Baharan Bahar
- Bahare Shafiei
- Bahram Fatemi
- Bahram Firouzi
- Bahram Moezi
- Bahram Tavakoli
- Barialei Hanifi
- Beata Lokaj (Sweden)
- Behnam Ebrahim Zade
- Behnam Fazeli
- Behnam javanfar
- Behrooz Alibakhshi
- Behrooz Asadi
- Behrooz Hejazi
- Behrouz Goudarzi
- Bijan Ghobadi
- Bijan Jalali
- Bijan Miremadi
- Bita Haghir
- Borzan Chatan
- Crystal Giesbrecht
- Cynthia Metselaar
- Danial Mohamadi Far
- Daryoosh Azimpour
- Daryoush Sharifian
- Daryush allahyari
- David Wessel
- Davood Ahmadlou
- Davood Aram
- Debbie Cameron
- Delaram Miremadi
- Delshad Khezri
- Ebrahim Alasavandi
- Ebrahim Asterki
- Ebrahim Kohnepushi
- Ebrahim Sadeghi
- Effat Mahbaz
- Ehsan Akbari
- Ehsan Hakimi
- Ehsan Irani
- Ehsan Naderpour
- Ehsan Rafiei
- Ehsan Sharbari
- Elahe Amani
- Elnaz Iran Nejad
- Erfan Mirzaeipour
- Eric Lee
- Erik Kloosterman (Netherland)
- Esfandiar Eslami
- Eshrat Hosseini
- Esmaeil Abdi
- Esmaeil Moradi
- Esmaeil Safarzade
- Esmaeil Zargarian
- Esmail Mardokh
- Esmail Rabihavi
- Esmat Bahrami
- Ezzat Mosallanejad
- Faeze Amini
- Farah Madaen
- Farah Madaen
- Farah Mohajer
- Farah Nazemi
- Farahnaz Norouzi
- Faramarz Arabpourian
- Faramarz Parsa
- Faranak Mostofi
- Farbod Soltani
- Farhad Majidi
- Farhad Soufi
- Farhad Yeganeh
- Farhad Zareie
- Farhang Farid
- Fariba Balouch
- Fariborz Farshim
- Farid Ruhani
- Faride Javidan
- Faride Rezaei
- Farrokh Zandi
- Farshid Mohamadi
- Farzad Bazargan
- Farzane Derakhshan
- Farzane Pakbin
- Fateme Kelvani
- Fateme Khoshroo
- Fateme Masjedi
- Fateme Sonbol
- Fateme Taghipour
- Fatemeh Rezaei
- Fatemeh Sahraei
- Fazel Naderi
- Fazel Rostami
- Felora Sheikhi
- Fereidoon Saremi
- Fereshte Jalilipanah
- Fereshte Zarifinia
- Fereshteh Abadi
- Flora Shafighy
- Fouzie Esmaeilpour
- Fuad Goodarzi
- Fuad Roshan
- G. Ghahramani
- Gashtasb Bavand
- Ghasem Mortezaei
- Ghazal Rasooli
- Ghodsi Mirataee
- Gholam Naraki
- Gilda karbassi
- Gity Faraz
- Golnoush Ghafouri
- Habib Bahreman
- Hadi Aghazari
- Hadi Mousavi
- Hadi Rasoulzade
- Hadi siahpoush
- Hadi Vaghfi
- Hadi Younesi
- Haide Ravesh
- Hajar Mehrabi
- Haji Tavani
- Haman Ghaffarzade
- Hamid Bahrami
- Hamid Haghshenas
- Hamid Kosari
- Hamid Zarshenas
- Hamideh Rastkhani
- Hamin Mohamadi
- Hani Dadyar
- Hans Haliper
- Hasan Aghayari
- Hasan Etemadi
- Hasan Golzari
- Hasan Jalili
- Hasan Keivan
- Hasan Massali
- Hasan Mohammadi
- Hasan Pooya
- Hasan Rouhani Gonabadi
- Hasan Salehi
- Hasan Verkiani
- Hasan Zehtab
- Hasan Zerehi
- Hashem Amini
- Hashem Fazeli
- Hawraman Karimi
- Hayde Moghisi
- Hejar Alipour
- Helen Mohamadrezaei
- Hirosh Rahnavard
- Hiva Amani
- Hoda Karimi Sadr
- Homa Moradi
- Homayoun Fatemi
- Hootan dolati
- Hormoz Raha
- Hosein Afsahi
- Hosein Ahmadi
- Hosein Daraj
- Hossein Joyandeh
- Houshang Soleimani Nejad
- Houshang Talepasand
- Houshyar Soroush
- Iraj Ghahremanlou
- Iraj Rezaei
- Iran Dadyar
- Iran Khakbaz
- Jahangir Adibpour
- Jahangir Golzar
- Jahangir Laghai
- Jalal Jale
- Jalalaldin Mehmoudi
- Jaleh Niazi
- Jalil Jalili
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- Jamil Farzan
- Jamile Halabi
- Jamileh Miraki
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- Javad Jaladati
- Javad Neishaboury
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- Javid Nasri
- Jila Omrani
- Kamran Chahtel
- Kamran Ghaderi
- Kamran Khaleghi
- Kamran Koushani
- Kamyar Setare
- Karim Amini
- Karim Shahmahmoudi
- Karla Sastaunik
- Katayoon Karimi
- Katayoun H
- Katayoun Navabi
- Kave Alhamudi
- Kave Aslani
- Kave Dadgari
- Kave Omar
- Kaveh Mesri
- Kazem Mohsenzade
- Kazem Nikkhah
- Kazem Rostami
- Keighobad Esmaeilpour
- Keikavous Abbasi
- Keyvan Javid
- Khadije Keshavarz
- Khalil Javid
- Khalil Keyvan
- Khatere Azarfar
- Khosro Ahmadi
- Khosro Shemirani
- Kia Sabri
- Kian Nazeryan
- Kiarash Kiani
- Kiumars Zamanzade
- Klara Biderholt (Sweden)
- Kourosh Zeighami
- Krister Gustafsson (Sweden)
- Ladan Bazargan
- Leghaeieh bakhtiari
- Leila Azimi
- Leila Fakhari
- Leila Farahbakhsh
- Leila Jadidi
- Leila Moayed
- Leila Ravand
- Leyli Hassanpour
- Lida derafshe
- Mahbube Peukert
- Mahdie Golrou
- Mahin Alipour
- Mahin Rouhani
- Mahmood Ketabchi
- Mahmood Parsaei
- Mahmoud Zamani
- Mahnaz Alaei
- Mahnaz Torki
- Mahshid pegahi
- Mahtab Asadi
- Mahtab ghorbani
- Mahvash Ghaemi
- Majid Azari
- Majid Dalirian
- Majid Farajian
- Majid Hamidian
- Majid Naseri
- Majid Rasooli
- Malihe Boriry
- Malihe Nikkhou kenarsari
- Mani Akhavan
- Manije Ghodrati
- Manouchehr Gloshan
- Mansour Faraji
- Mansour Kamali
- Mansour Kamalzadeh
- Mansour Moayedi
- mansour zand
- Maral M.
- Maria Cristina Cosentino
- Maria Mahmoudi
- Marjan Arvandi
- Marjan Shahbodin
- Marjan Yazdani
- Martha V
- Maryam Aghamohammadi
- Maryam Ahari
- Maryam Banaei
- Maryam Banihashem
- Maryam Mohamadpoor
- Maryam Namazie
- Maryam Pourtangestani
- Maryam Sarjoughian
- Maryam Sayadnavard
- Marzie Adami
- Marzieh Yazdanyar
- Masoud Arjang
- Masoud Attarzade
- Masoud Azarnoush
- Masoud Bakhti
- Masoud Noghrekar
- Masoud Yusefi
- Masoumeh Shokri
- Mats Gunnarsson (Sweden)
- Mauro Modesti
- Mazdak Allahyari
- Maziar Allahverdi
- Mehdi Fallahi
- Mehdi Farshbaf Azarian
- Mehdi Moradi
- Mehrak Hezare
- Mehran Amiri
- Mehran Esfandiari
- Mehran Mahbobi
- Mehran Mirfakhraie
- Mehran Mostaed
- Mehran Najafi
- Mehran Rafiei
- Mehran Sepehri
- Mehrdad Amiri
- Mehri hajiaghazadeh
- Mehri Soltani Moez
- Mehrnaz Saghdoshpey
- Mehrnoosh Hoseini
- Mersede Ghaedi
- Mersede Shahbodin
- Mihan Jazani
- Mikaeil Zoughdarmoghadam
- Milad Beheshti
- Milad Rabiei
- Milad Rasaeimanesh
- Mina Ahadi
- Mina Behroozi
- Mina Labady
- Mina Sahar
- Mina Sarraf
- Minoo Diri
- Minoo Irvani
- Minoo Mirani
- Minoo Sahraei
- Mirhasan Aghayari
- Mitra Daneshi
- Mitra Darvishian
- Mitra Najafi
- Mohamad Afsari
- Mohamad Ahadi
- Mohamad Ali Amini
- Mohamad Amin Kamangar
- Mohamad Asangaran
- Mohamad Azizi
- Mohamad Gharib Feizi
- Mohamad Hashemi
- Mohamad Hosan Davoudi
- Mohamad Kazemi
- Mohamad Mohamadi
- Mohamad Shokouhi
- Mohamad Tarfourani
- Mohamadreza Goudarzi
- Mohammad Hooshmand
- Mohammad Mehdipour
- Mohammad Mehdi Shahmoradi
- Mohsen Ebrahimi
- Mohsen Kazemzade
- Mohsen Nejad
- Mohsen Safarelahi
- Mojdeh Nabavi
- Mojgan Habibi
- Mojtaba Abedini
- Mojtaba Nazari
- Monir Moshashaei
- Monire Abdi
- Montazer Zoidani
- Morteza Davar
- Morteza Niki
- Mosayeb Mohamadimargirani
- Mostafa Azizi
- Mostafa Kamali
- Mostafa Saber
- Mozhgan Keshavarz
- Nader Osare
- Nadia Ardalan
- Nadija Al Maleki (Sweden)
- Nahid Amiri
- Nahid Bahman
- Nahid Hosseini
- Nahid Nabavi
- Narges Jahan
- Narges Kermanshahi
- Narges Sarjoughian
- Narges Shirzad
- Narges Zangene
- Narges Zarifian
- Naser Asghari
- Naser Kashkooli
- Naser Shishegar
- Nasrin Asadian
- Nasrin Esmaeili
- Nasrin Mahmoud
- Nasrin Namdarpour
- Nasser Aghbashlou
- Nasta Sia
- Navid Mohamadi
- Navid Pouya
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam
- Nazanin Taheri
- Negar Miri Lavasani
- Negar Mojri
- Negar Rashidi
- Nesan Nodinian
- Nicolas Dessaux
- Nilufar Saberi
- Nima Bahrami
- Nima Chaleneger
- Nima Sarvestani
- Nina Toobaei
- Omid Salehi
- Omid Shahbazi
- Omid Taheri
- Parastoo Ashti
- Pari Rashidi
- Parisa Ayande
- Parisa Azami
- Parisa Mahmoudi
- Parisa Pooyande
- Parvane Sepehr
- Parvin Maazi
- Parvin Malek
- Parvin Ramzi
- Parvin Shahbazi
- Payam Azari
- Payam Hazari Abkenar
- Peiman Mirzaei
- Peter Tatchell
- Pouya Haghighatjoo
- Raana Soleimani
- Rahim Azad
- Rahim Bandouei
- Rahim Falahat Najad
- Rahim Yazdanparast
- Ramin Menbari
- Raouf Afsaei
- Raqiya Khan
- Rasoul Mostafa
- Rasoul Shokati
- Rauf Mollazehi
- Rayhane Tabrizi
- Reihane Pakbin
- Reza Alikhani
- Reza Allamezade
- Reza Azmoude
- Reza Boroumand
- Reza Gharashi
- Reza Ghias
- Reza Ghorbani
- Reza Kahkesh
- Reza Moridi
- Reza Rashidi
- Reza Rashidi
- Reza Saidi
- Reza Torabi
- Reza Zarabi
- Rira Jalilian
- Ronak Farhang
- Rouhollah Moradi
- Roya Karim
- Saba Shahcheraghi
- Saber Rahimi
- Sadaf Kourosh Nia
- Sadegh Andouray
- Sadegh Kar
- Sadi Abdi
- Saeb Hosseini
- Saeed Shiri
- Saeid Badle
- Saeid Dehghan
- Saeid Hallajha
- Saeid Kia
- Saeid madanloo
- Saeid Nama
- Saeid Rahnama
- Saeid Vafa
- Saeid Veisi
- Sahar Azad
- Sakine Bagheri
- Salah Irandoost
- Salam Khodadoost
- Sali vaziri
- Samir Noori
- Samira Hoghoughi
- Samko Banafshi
- Sana Pirkheran
- Sanaz Parvin
- Sara davari
- Sara Eghlimidej
- Sara Fadavi
- Sara Mesof
- Sara Nakhaei
- Sara Siahpour
- Sargol Ahmad
- Sasan Soleimani
- Sattari Nourizad
- Sedigh Karimi
- Seifollah Mohseni
- Sekhavat Sahami
- Sepehrdad Gorgin
- Sepidar I
- sepideh mirfakhraie
- Seria Dadyar
- Serous Ilbagi
- Sevin Ghorbani
- Seyed Ali Mohammadi rad
- Seyed Jalal, Modabber
- Shabboo Naderi
- Shadi Bahar
- Shaghayegh sadeghigoodarzi
- Shahab Bahrami
- Shahab Rashidi
- Shahab Rashiy
- Shahin Abdi
- Shahin Dehghani
- Shahin Esfandiyari
- Shahin Heydari
- Shahin Kaboli
- Shahla Abghari
- Shahla Aslan
- Shahla Daneshfar
- Shahla Dehhaghi
- Shahnaz Khandani
- Shahnaz Morattab
- Shahnaz Tousi
- Shahram Tabe-Mohammadi
- Shahryar Eghbali
- Shamila Monfared
- Sharzad Kananian
- Shawn Bahrami
- Shayesteh Taherkhani
- Shemal Mamzade Bokani
- Shetav Abdollahi
- Shima Askari
- Shirdokht Ziarati
- Shirin Bahrami
- Shirin Hoseini
- Shirin Jahanian
- Shirin Mehrbod
- Shirin Shams
- Shirindokht Daghighian
- Shiva Mahboubi
- Shohre Ghanbari
- Shohreh Ghanbary
- Shokat Moahamad
- Shole Pakravan
- Si firmo
- Siamak Bahari
- Siamak Farid
- Siamak Maki
- Siamak Naderi
- Siamak Zare
- Siavash Abghari
- Siavash Modarresi
- Sima Mahzari
- Sima Parsaei
- Simin Oskouei
- Siroos Mirzaei
- Sirvan Mansouri
- Sivan Naseri
- Sohail Esfandiyari
- Soheila Bahramian
- Soheila dalvand
- Soheila Milani
- Soheila Rouhani
- Soheila Sattari
- Soheila Sherbafi
- Soleiman Sigarchi
- Soosan Sahraei
- Soran Azarbar
- Soraya Smith
- Soroosh Azadi
- Soroush Mirghasemi
- Soudabe Shakib
- Soude Keipour
- Sousan Zarghamian
- Stephen von Sychowski
- Stevan Jaki
- Sudi Larsen
- Susan saberi
- Susanna Stravato
- Taghi Hashemi
- Taher Rasooli
- Tahere Jokar
- Tahere Rashidi
- Tahereh Arabpourian
- Tahmineh Sadeghi
- Tahmoures Yasemi
- Tannaz Jamali Abyane
- Tayeb Zandi
- Terri Sleeva
- Tina Hosseini
- Tooka Neiestani
- Tooran Baktash
- Tuba Kamangar
- Ulduz Hashemi
- Vahab Ansari
- Vahhab Pourfaraj
- Vahid Fakhri
- Vahid Lalipour
- Vajihe Ghane
- Valah Zamani
- Vida Fakhrizadeh
- Vida Farhang
- Vida Nematiyan
- Vincent Ruizenaar
- Yadi Kouhi
- Yadi Mahmoudi
- Yadollah Bagheri
- Yadollah Baladi
- Yaser Mahvar
- Yousof Azizi Banitorof
- Yousof Mohammadi
- Yunes Shameli
- Zahra Nekouie
- Zahra Saedpanah
- Zahra. Gh
- Zargham Asadi
- Zari Rabiei
- Zhila Daneshvar
- Zhinoo Ebrahimi
- Ziba Mashkouri
- Ziba Mohamadi
- Zina Fereidounian
- Zohre Mahmoudi
- Zohre Zarnegar
- Zohreh Hakimi Fard
- Zohreh Mirhoseini
- Zoya Sepehri
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Regarding: the situation of the oil workers in Iran
From: Free Them Now (FTN)
November 25, 2023
We are writing this letter on behalf of the Free Them Now, the campaign to free jailed workers in Iran, to protest the appeasement of the International Labour Organization with the anti-workers and anti-human Islamic regime of Iran.
For several weeks now, formal and contractual oil project workers have been protesting and striking. These workers were able to struggle and protest many years, because of the securitised and barrack-like atmosphere of their work and the oppressive and suffocative climate of the oil centres. However, in recent years they have broken this silence atmosphere, and have started their protests despite the costs.
You definitely know that the Islamic regime is a government that violates the most basic rights of the workers in iran, every day. In this country, workers and all citizens do not have the right to strike, the right to organize and collective bargaining, the right to protest and freedom of speech. The Islamic government constantly violates all the protocols of the ILO regarding workers’ rights. Some workers in Iran are tortured and imprisoned for defending their basic rights. These pressures are more intense in the oil industry, which is the economic artery of the government. For example, during the protests of the oil workers in recent years, and especially during their protests in solidarity with “woman life freedom” revolution in October of last year, hundreds of oil workers were fired and blacklisted by the government due to protesting these conditions, and they do not have the possibility of employment anywhere else.
Iran’s oil industry is an important centre of authorities’ looting and more than 200 thousand workers are employed in it. Each part of the oil workers are under the control of a contractor, and these contractors, who are mostly dependents of the government and security guards, take advantage of the workers and impose very inhumane conditions on them. Due to the special and scattered conditions of the oil centres, many of which are located in the middle of the seas and in areas far from residential and urban facilities, the Islamic Republic has been able to impose more difficult working, livelihood and security conditions on the oil workers. These workers do not have the opportunity to visit their families for months and are forced to live in excruciating heat and without basic facilities in camps without proper cooling and living facilities. Their working conditions are also very unbearable and deadly. In oil, we have witnessed workers’ cardiac arrest due to working in scorching heat above 60 Celsius degrees, which should basically be prohibited.
Over the past year, several oil centres have experienced explosions and fires, and several workers have lost their lives. At least twenty workers lost their lives in the workplace, in the last six months. Three workers committed suicide due to the pressure of work and livelihood. It is not easy to describe the hellish conditions imposed on the workers in one letter.
The protest of the official and contractual and project oil workers is to all these attacks by the government on the workers livelihood, against the barrack-like conditions, the securitised working environments, lack of safety of the working environment and many other grievances that have not been addressed by the employers.
The appeasement of the ILO with the Islamic regime means accompanying the anti-labour policies of this regime and is the subject of the anger and disgust of the workers in Iran.
Our demand is to expel the Islamic regime and all its representative bodies from the ILO. Our demand is to put pressure on the Islamic government to respect the rights of workers, and condemn the anti-labour and anti-human policies of this government. This government should be condemned and boycotted worldwide. This is our wish and definitely the wish of all workers in Iran.
However the workers and people of Iran through “woman, life, freedom” revolution are struggling and confronting the Islamic regime, with the aim of bring it down. And they condemn any appeasement with this government. Listen to the voice of Iranian workers.
Shahla Daneshfar, spokesperson of Free Them Now (FTN)
Kazem Nik khah, head of FTN’s International relations
Currently, different sections of the oil workers in Iran are in protest. These protests are getting wider every day. Free Them Now calls on all the global trade unions to express their support for the demands and struggle of the oil workers in Iran.
The protests of the workers are against attacks on their livelihoods by the government and employers, against oppressive work contracts, against the lack of job security, against all kinds of discrimination and oppression, and especially against the entrusting of a huge part of the oil centres to contractors and the daily attacks and pressure on the workers.
The formal oil workers, who are a decisive part of the oil industry, are now at the forefront of the worker protests at oil centres. Among them, the workers of the operational department of various oil and gas companies have protested during this period in the Offshore Oil Company (Falat Ghareh), Khark Petrochemical Company, Masjed Soleyman oil Company, and Aghajari Oil and Gas Producing Company. These are among the main oil and gas producing companies in Iran and employ thousands of workers.
The protests of the formal workers have intensified since the setting of the salary cap, which lead to a reduction in their incomes, the limitation of retirement payments and heavy tax deductions. Their immediate demand is to stop these attacks on their livelihood.
Apart from formal workers, contract workers also are widely in protest. They object to the types of work contracts that are common in the oil industry and have imposed the most difficult and low paid working conditions on the workers.
These protests are against the entire oil ruling structure. An important part of these workers work under the title of third-pillar workers, who are covered by the Ministry of Labor but are hired through contractors. Their immediate demand is also the dismissal of contractors from the oil industry.
Thus, the atmosphere in Iran’s oil industry is highly inflamed. Formal workers, contract workers, third pillar workers are widely in protest. The oil project workers are also preparing for protests due to not getting their demands met.
Th Organizing Council of Oil Contract Workers’ Protests (OCOCWP) has declared Mondays as the days of unity of struggle of different sections of workers in oil.
The Islamic regime has always imposed strict security conditions on oil workers due to the fear of protests in oil, which is the economic artery of the country. These protests shows that the security walls have cracked and today, the oil workers are protesting against the oppression of the government and demanding their rights. Oil workers need broad social and global support to advance their struggles and to face any repression.
Free Them Now, the campaign to free jailed workers in Iran, has started a campaign to support the oil workers in Iran. We call on all the global trade unions and people of the world to support these workers by any means possible. Your letters and statements and messages of solidarity and support have a great impact on strengthening this crucial struggle.
Shahla Daneshfar spokesperson
Kazem Nik khah, FTN’s head of International relations
October27, 2023
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.
Shahla.daneshfar2@gmail.com
https://www.free-them-now.com/
September 28, 2023
نامه آموزش بین الملل به اتحادیه های آموزشی عضو خود در خصوص وضعیت معلمان در ایران
بنا بر خبر منتشر شده از سوی شورای هماهنگی تشکلهای صنفی فرهنگیان آموزش بین الملل با انتشار نامه ای در مورد فشارهای امنیتی جمهوری اسلامی بر روی معلمان از اتحادیه های آموزشی عضو خود در سراسر جهان خواست که از مقامات جمهوری اسلامی ایران بخواهند که خواستار آزادی معلمان زندانی و آزادی حق تشکل معلمان شوند. بدین ترتیب کارزاری بین المللی برای آزادی معلمان زندانی در جریان است و کمپین برای آزادی کارگران زندااین خبر نمونه ای دیگر از بازتاب جهانی اعتراضات معلمان و کارگران و حمایت های بین المللی است. و این خود نمونه ای دیگر از بازتاب جهانی اعتراضات معلمان و کارگران و حمایت های بین المللی است.
کمپین برای آزادی کارگران زندانی همصدا با آموزش بین الملل و در کنار کارزار یکصد هزار امضا برای آزادی معلمان زندانی، بر آزادی بدون قید و شرط معلمان زندانی و همه زندانیان سیاسی، لغو احکام امنیتی صادر شده از جمله احکام زندان، اخراج و انفصال از خدمت برای معلمان معترض، بسته شدن پرونده های امنیتی برای معلمان و همه فعالین سیاسی تاکید دارد. از جمله حکم صادره برای محمد حبیبی که بخاطر مبارزاتش در دفاع ز حقوق معلمان و دانش آموزان سالها عمرش را در زندان گذرانده و اکنون حکم بازخرید و اخراج گرفته است، باید فورا لغو شود. همچنین وضعیت جعفر ابراهیمی معلم زندانی اضطراری است. بدلیل بیماری حاد دیابت خطر نابینایی او را تهدید میکند و باید فورا تحت درمان قرار گیرد. کارزار یکصد هزار امضا به مناسبت آغاز سال تحصیلی جدید بار دیگر همه معلمان را به پیوستن به این کمپین فراخوانده است. این کارزار به همه مردم مربوط است. معلمان صدای اعتراض همه مردم هستند. کمپین برای آزادی کارگران زندانی ضمن تاکید بر فراخوان راه اندازان این کارزار برای پیوستن همه معلمان، از همه مردم میخواهد که حامی این کارزار باشند و خواهان آزادی فوری و بی قید و شرط معلمان شوند. گزارش منتشر شده از سوی شورای هماهنگی تشکلهای صنفی فرهنگیان در مورد متن نامه آموزش بین المللی به اتحادیه های آموزشی عضو خود در خصوص وضعیت معلمان در ایران ضمیمه است.
دوم مهر ماه ۱۴۰۲، ۲۴ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۳
Shahla.daneshfar2@gmial.com-
ضمیمه
فعالین صنفی معلمان را که مطالبات برحق کارگران را بیان میکنند، آزاد کنید!
آموزش بینالملل (EI) با انتشار نامهای در خصوص وضعیت معلمان، از اتحادیههای آموزشی عضو خود در سراسر جهان خواست که از مقامات جمهوری اسلامی ایران بخواهند که بلافاصله و بدون قید و شرط معلمان زندانی تشکلهای صنفی، اتحادیههای کارگری، را آزاد کنند و به حقوق اتحادیهها احترام بگذارند.
معلمان در ایران سالهاست که خواستههای برحق خود را برای شرایط کاری مناسب، به رسمیت شناختن حقوق و آزادیهای اساسی خود به عنوان معلم و شهروند بیان میکنند. از اول ماه مه ۲۰۲۲، چندین نفر از رهبران اتحادیه معلمان به دلیل انجام فعالیتهای مسالمتآمیز اتحادیههای کارگری مجاز توسط قوانین ملی و بینالمللی، بهطور غیرقانونی دستگیر، بازداشت و شکنجه شدهاند.
در هفتههای اخیر، مقامات ایرانی بار دیگر به سرکوب معلمان و نمایندگان تشکلهای صنفی، به منظور کنترل تظاهرات اولین سالگرد قتل ژینا امینی در ۱۶ سپتامبر، دست زدند. آموزش بینالمللبه ویژه در مورد وضعیت افراد مذکور، از اعضای انجمنهای صنفی معلمان، که به صورت منطقهای فهرست شده، ابراز نگران کرده است. کلیه انجمنهای معلمان استان و شهرستان زیر عضویت شورای هماهنگی تشکلهای صنفی فرهنگیان ایران است که این شورا زیر مجموعهی EI است: انجمن صنفی معلمان استان البرز: مسعود فرهیخته
انجمن صنفی معلمان تهران (شامل شهرستان اسلامشهر): اسماعیل عبدی، رسول بداقی، محمد دارکش، جعفر ابراهیمی، محمد حبیبی، زینب همرنگ، فرزانه ناظران پور، فاطمه تدریسی، محمدتقی فلاحی و سارا سیاهپور.
انجمن صنفی معلمان استان کوردستان:انجمن صنفی معلمان دیواندره: امید شاهمحمدی
انجمن صنفی معلمان مریوان: شیوا عاملیراد، اسکندر لطفی، شعبان محمدی، تحسین مصطفی، مسعود نیکخواه و سیوان سلیمانی.
انجمن صنفی معلمان سنندج: لقمان افضلی، مختار اسدی و مجید کریمی
انجمن صنفی معلمان سقز: سلیمان عبدی
کانون صنفی معلمان بوشهر: محمود ملاکی
انجمن صنفی معلمان خراسان رضوی: هاشم خواستار و عاتکه رجبی
انجمن صنفی معلمان استان خوزستان: پیروز نامی
انجمن صنفی معلمان شهرستان شهرضا، استان اصفهان: حمید رحمتی
انجمن صنفی معلمان استان گیلان: انوش عادلی، فریبا انامی، عزیز قاسمزاده، حسن نظریان و محمود صدیقیپور
انجمن صنفی معلمان استان فارس: محمدعلی زحمتکش، عبدالرضاق امیری، اصغر امیرزادگان، مژگان باقری، زهرا اسفندیاری، مهدی فتحی، ابوالفضل خوران، غلامرضا غلامیکندازی، ایرج رهنما و افشین رزمجو.
فعال صنفی معلمان استان چهار محال و بختیاری و شهرکرد: محمد سعیدی ابوالشقاقی
فعال صنفی معلمان استان خراسان شمالی، شهرستان اسفراین: سعید مطهری
این اعضای تشکلات صنفی معلمان، از ماه می ۲۰۲۲ با یک سری موارد نقض شدید حقوق خود مواجه شدهاند، از جمله:· اخراج ، تنزل رتبه و کاهش حقوق، دستگیری و بازداشت، اغلب در سلول انفرادی برای مدت طولانی، شکنجه برای گرفتن اعترافات دروغین و اجبار به انصراف از کار صنفی، بازداشت طولانیمدت فراتر از مجازاتهای اولیه زندان، مبالغ گزاف وثیقه، برخی به ۵۰٫۰۰۰ دلار آمریکا برای آزادی موقت، دسترسی ناکافی به درمان پزشکی، دسترسی محدود به مشاور حقوقی، محدودیت در حقوق ملاقات با خانواده، انتشار اطلاعات نادرست و اتهام به آنان در شبکههای اجتماعی، مواجه شدن با اتهامات غیرمنطقی؛
انتقال پروندههای قضایی به شعبههایی از دادگاه انقلاب اسلامی که معمولاً به پروندههای سیاسی اختصاص دارد؛ این اقدامات بیانگر اشکال مختلف آزار و اذیت غیرقانونی علیه اعضای این تشکلات است. آموزش بینالملل از اتحادیههای آموزشی اعضای خود دعوت کرده است که در حمایت از همکاران ایرانی اقدام کنند و با ارسال نامهی اعتراضی به رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ایران، آزادی معلمان زندانی صنفی، رعایت حقوق آنان و آزادیهای اساسی در کشور را خواستار شوند.
(NUPGE),One of the Canada’s largest labor unions condemned the Islamic regime of Iran
Folowing the contact of Masoud Arzhang the member of Free Them Now (Campaign to free jailed workers in Iran-FTN ) Bert Blundon, the head of the National Union of Public and Government Service Workers of Canada (NUPGE), which has more than 425 thousand members, condemned the repressions of the Islamic regime in a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada and he asked the Canadian government not to remain indifferent to the repressive policies of the Islamic regime of Iran but actively condemn it. The text of Bert Blundon’s letter is as follows:
August 30, 2023
The Hon. Mélanie Joly, PC, MP
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
Dear Minister:
I am writing to you on behalf of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), which represents more than 425,000 workers across the country, regarding the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.
Last fall, NUPGE joined many others in calling for justice for Mahsa Amini. We expressed solidarity with the women-led demonstrations in Iran calling for an end to human rights violations, including the repression of women’s rights.
Despite the large-scale demonstrations by Iranians that garnered international attention and support, the Iranian government has recently redoubled its efforts to enforce the mandatory hijab laws, including through surveillance techniques. A recent report from Amnesty International documents how the Iranian government is intensifying its crackdowns on women and girls who choose not to wear the hijab.
A new bill passed this spring will compound this. Women and girls who do not wear the hijab, or who do not wear it in an approved way, would be subject to a range of penalties. These include being denied access to essential services, dismissal from work, or deductions from their salary and benefits, fines, and imprisonment. The bill is widely seen as further codifying into law the blatant violations of women’s rights.
NUPGE is extremely concerned by these developments. They add to the Iranian government’s shameful track record of violating fundamental human rights, sparking condemnation from UN human rights experts.
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In recent years, there has also been a surge in labour strikes and protests regarding wages, working conditions, and human rights. These actions, too, have been met with government repression and violence. Activists have been threatened or detained because they advocate for workers’ rights and for fair and decent working conditions.
NUPGE expresses solidarity with human rights defenders and with the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran. I am calling on your government to condemn the Iranian regime’s ongoing and worsening human rights violations. It is important that the international community continue to pay attention. And I urge you to take steps to support the Iranian people’s movements and to ensure that measures to pressure the Iranian regime, such as sanctions, do not contribute to the deteriorating human rights situation.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Bert Blundon
cc: Jason MacLean, Secretary-Treasurer
National Executive Board
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September3, 2023