June 18, 2010

2000 workers on strike Tehran, June 17, 2010 More than 2000 workers of Tablier Company went on consecutive strikes to receive their unpaid wages for three months in front of the office of the company in Tavanir St. in Tehran but they have not received the wages yet.

Workers won

Tehran, June 17, 2010
After a month of strike workers of Metal Industry No. 1 were able to receive their unpaid wages.

A laborer activist arrested

Tehran, June 17, 2010
Behnam Ibrahimzadeh who was arrested on June 12 told his brother in a call from Evin that he has been severely beaten at the time of arrest, he is wounded and two of his ribs are broken.
Mr. Ibrahimzadeh is a plumber in Shorabad of Shahr-e-ray.

Hundreds of Kerman Province’s workers went on strike

Sirjan, June 16, 2010
400 workers of Sirjan’s Iron Stone Company went on strike since June 14. These workers protested against the results of the hiring-tests taken in this unit. It was announced that only 40 of these workers have been accepted and the reset will be fired.
The workers protested since June 15 in front of the office of the company in Golgahar of Sirjan.

Iran arrests man in Mahabad on charges of cooperating with dissident groups

June 16, 2010 - A man from Mahabad identified as Mohammad-Amin Rashedi was arrested in the past few days in this town. He is currently in Mahabad Prison and has been charged with cooperating with dissident groups.

Iran continues systematic torture of prisoners in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj

June 16, 2010 - In the past few weeks, the inhumane torture, harassing and abuse of prisoners has continued in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. These prisoners are under severe torture in solitary cells knows as the doghouse. They are kept in high temperatures without water for a long period of time and if they knock on their cell doors asking for water, they are shackled and blindfolded and taken to the torture cell where they are tortured. Torture with electric shockers is a common method used in this prison. Prisoners who were tortured in the past few days include Hassan Sharifi, Qeisar Ismaili, Javad Zare, Ahmad Fathian (security forces broke his nose in torture), Saman Mohammadi and a number of other prisoners.

Iran arrests two student activists in Shiraz

June 16, 2010 - Sajad and Hamzeh Benam, two student activists in Shiraz were arrested on June 12, on the anniversary of protests in Iran by agents of the Shiraz Intelligence Agency.
Sajad Benam is a computer engineering major at Shiraz University who was arrested after being summoned to the university Protection Department and was handed over to the Intelligence Agency. He was arrested once before on November 4, 2010.
Hamzeh Benam, who studies at the Quran Science University, was arrested after being summoned by the Shiraz Intelligence Agency. This student activist was also arrested for 3 days last June.

Pressure on Gohardasht’s political prisoners continue

Tehran, June 17, 2010
Reza Joshan political prisoner is still in one cell with ordinary prisoners. He has only half an hour a day to go in open air and he is deprived from calling of visiting his family.
Mr. Joshan is under pressure by the henchmen to ask for pardon from Khamenei.
He is suffering from severe lung problems but the henchmen have told him that any treatment is conditional to his asking for pardon. But Reza resists and endures.
Another political prisoner Ali Moezi is suffering from severe kidney problem.

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