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Update: Repression against Labor Activists in Iran Featured <http://iranlaborreport.com/?cat=7> / recent updates<http://iranlaborreport.com/?cat=1> September 27, 2010 0<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#comments> This last August,* ILR* published a precis<http://iranlaborreport.com/?p=1248>on the case of several persecuted labor activists in Iran. The following provides a brief update on them and some other labor activists. *Mansou Osaloo*, the head of the Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate received an additional one year term in August for having connections with the illegal opposition groups. This additional one year jail term has been confirmed by a superior court extending his incarceration to six years. *Ebrahim Maddadi*, the deputy head of the Bus Workers Syndicate, has been denied any normal prison breaks despite the fact that he has already spent more than 2 of his 3.5 years in jail. *Reza Shahabi*, another board member of the bus drivers union, is still in jail after more than three months with no official legal case brought against him. Reza Shahabi is suffering from severe back and neck problems. *Alireza Saeedi* and *Behrouz Mollazadeh* of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane factory have been sentenced to one year in prion each by Dezful revolutionary court in southern Iran. They have been sentenced to offenses against the leadership. The two activists were arrested earlier in January and released subsequently on $70,000 bail. The reason for their arrest was possession of a satirical clip on their cell phones. *Sadigh Karimi*, a board member, and *Foad Keikhosravi*, an activist with the Free Association of Iranian Workers were tried for a second consecutive time by the branch one revolutionary court in the city of Sanandaj on September 22. The two were tried for a second time on the charges of organizing the May Day rally in the city this year, while the same court had already convicted them once on the same charges and they have been awaiting sentencing. The two activists were detained early morning of May 1 and the events took place at 6:00 p.m. on that day. *Asaad Moloudzadeh* of the Coordinating Committee to Facilitate the Creation of Workers Organizations in Iran walked in Oroumiyeh Court on September 13 to start his jail term. He is currently held in ward 12 of that prison. Moloudzadeh was sentenced to five months in prison on June 14 for propaganda against the state merely by membership in the Coordinating Committee. *Ali Yazdani*, a workers activist writing for Workers Rights Center publications has been summoned by the judiciary. The reason for this summon remains unclear. *Rasoul Bodaghi*, a member of the board of the Iran Teachers Trade Association is still awaiting his appeal on a 6-year jail sentence plus a 5-year ban on his social activity passed in August of this year. Bodaghi was arrested last September and has had his salaries cut for the last ten months. *Abdolreza Ghanbari*, the teacher under the death penalty has had his sentence commuted to jail terms. The teacher suffering from acute kidney problem has had recurring bouts of internal bleeding. The prison authorities decline his transfer to hospitals outside the prison system. Abdolreza Ghanbari was arrested on January 2 in Pakdasht Hesar Amin High School by the intelligence ministry operatives and taken to the ward 209 in solitary confinement cells in Tehran Evin prison. He was consequently sentenced to death for Moharebeh (i.e. waging war against Islam) and propaganda against the system. *Abdollah Momeni*, *Aliakbar Baghani*, *Hashem Khastar*, *Mohammad Davari*, and *Esmael Abdi* are other teachers in prison because of their union activities or participation in street protests following last years fraudulent election. ----------------------------------- Nurses Lose Contracts Permanently Due to Improper Dressing recent updates <http://iranlaborreport.com/?cat=1> September 27, 2010 0<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#comments> According to the general secretary of the the main trade association for Irans nurses, the Nurses House, many of the contracting nurses at Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran have been terminated by the Gozinesh, or personnel office. Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA): While the nursing supervisory authorities closely monitor attire and hejab regulations for nurses, by last winter, using the pretext of improper-veiling, the personnel office at Tehran Medical Sciences University has illegally engaged in terminating the contracts of very many nurses. He added: Nurses do not work under normal conditions like employees at other professions. Tending to their patientss needs might pose problems for their covers. Thats why they are always more conscious of their attire than other groups working at a given hospital. According to Sharifi Moghadam, the terminated nurses have not been allowed to continue working until the end of the month. Many who have been asked to return have not been able to do so because of these issues. Nurses suffer from the worst stringencies, he said. They are always under pressure by the doctors and teaching staff at work; working hours are long; job evaluations are routine; and pay is inadequate. Last year, the Health Ministry announced that the country is facing a shortage of new nursing applicants. ---------------------------------- Persian2English <http://persian2english.com/> Breaking the Language Barrier on Human Rights <http://persian2english.com/?p=14752> Zia Nabavi Severely Beaten After Transfer to Prison Exile <http://persian2english.com/?p=14752> September 27, 2010 Educational rights activist Zia Nabavi was beaten after his transfer to Karoun prison in Ahvaz (capital of the Iranian province of Khuzestan). He was held in solitary confinement for 48 hours. Zia Nabavi is the spokesperson for the Right to Education Council. HEADLINES <http://persian2english.com/?p=14758> RSF Report |Iranian bloggers Could Face Death Penalty <http://persian2english.com/?p=14758> September 27, 2010 Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about serious human rights violations by the Revolutionary Guards against journalists and netizens held in Iranian prisons. Prosecutors may be about to request the death penalty for two bloggers who have been detained since 2008, Vahid Asghari and Hossein Derakhshan. <http://persian2english.com/?p=14720> Human Rights Violations Report | Part 2: Week of September 20, 2010 <http://persian2english.com/?p=14720> September 27, 2010 Mehdi Fatahbakhsh Deprived of Medical Prison Leave Due to Lack of Financial Resources | Male and Female Students Beaten at Azad University by Security Forces | Ahvaz City Council Member Dariush Mombaini Detained | Zia Nabavi Severely Beaten Upon Arrival at Ahvaz Prison | Noushin Ahmadi-Khorasani Summoned to the Prosecutors Office in Evin Prison | One Million Signatures Campaign Activist Navid Mohebbi Detained <http://persian2english.com/?p=14715> 17 Year Old Executed in Shiraz<http://persian2english.com/?p=14715> September 26, 2010 In his latest blog entry, Mohammad Mostafaei discloses that on July 19, 2010, away from the eyes of the public and the media and without any notice given to the family of the defendant, 17 year old Mohammad was hanged in the city of Shiraz (southwest of Tehran). 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