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Do not forget our sisters and brothers in Iran.On May Day this year in Iran, two brave women - Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi - participated in open celebrations of the international workers' holiday. The regime considers this to be a crime and the women were arrested. They have just been sentenced to 15 lashes apiece, as well as four months in prison. They're not alone. In a new and ferocious wave of repression directed against worker activists, a Kurdish teacher (Farzad Kamangar) has been sentenced to death. Three men (Abdullah Khani, Seyed Qaleb Hosseini, and Khaled Hosseini) have been sentenced to 120 lashes between them, as well as prison sentences. Afshin Shams has been arrested and awaits trial. Meanwhile, Mansour Osanloo, leader of the Tehran bus workers, has languished in jail since July 2007. Enough is enough. The Iranian regime must now receive a loud and clear message from the international labour movement that we have not forgotten our sisters and brothers in Iran. Thousands of us must raise our voices. You can help send that message by going to LabourStart's new campaign page here: http://www.labourstart.org/iran South Korean unions under attackThe South Korean government has issued arrest warrants for the entire leadership of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and several of its affiliates. Union leaders are holed up in the KCTU headquarters in Seoul, the building now surrounded by riot police.
From LabourStart: http://www.labourstart.org/kctu LabourStart has been asked by the KCTU to organize a big international campaign to send messages of protest, demanding an end to the arrests and respect for human rights. Please make sure you send off your protest message today from http://www.labourstart.org/kctu and spread the word to your friends and fellow trade unionists. There is also a Facebook Cause promoting the same issue -- please sign up to that and add it to your profile. Details here: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/107071 Let's go viral with this one, and get 10,000 messages sent to South Korea this week! |
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