International Campaign Against Islamic Republic Atrocities
To: All Labour and Human Rights Organizations
International Campaign Against Islamic Republic Atrocities Islamic republic intends to execute tens of prisoners Join the international campaign to save life of political prisoners, those condemned to be stoned, to free imprisoned labour activists, students and women
Sign the petition and ask others to sign
The Islamic republic of Iran has embarked on a new wave of suppression. In the recent days it has executed a number of prisoners, stoned some to death and arrested a number of labour, student and activist of women?s movement in Iran. This is part of its assault to intimidate the rising protest movement in Iran.
Number of arrest and summarily executions has risen dramatically. Last week, the Islamic regime stoned Jafa Kiyani to death in Takistan. ? On Saturday 14 July, in northern city of Tabriz, Horiyeh, was executed in public for having sex out of wedlock. On the same day 3 others were hanged in the same city. It was announced that in a few days time, Mokarameh Ebrahimi, mother of 5 children would be stoned to death. The Leaders of the Islamic Republic have announced last week that they have verified the execution of 20 young people.
Mansour Osdanloo, leader of the Tehran Bus drivers Union has been kidnapped and imprisoned. Furthermore they have announced that religious police would be doubled in city parks and streets to prevent teenage boys and girls mixing and floating religious ethics?
While Mahmoud Salehi, a leading labour activist, is still in prison, they have continued to put on trial two other labour activists, Shieth Amani and Sadeeg Karimi, from the city of Sanandaj for organizing celebrations of May 1st international workers day . The Islamic republic has turned to violent aggression at the very time when it is in deep crisis and protest movement in Iran is escalating. The so called petrol protest in opposition to hike in petrol prices in Iran is an example. The increase in religious police to impose hejab is an attempt by the Islamic republic to confront this movement which really indicates that Iranian society is rejecting the Islamic imposition and its policies.
We will confront this assault and will defeat it! We have announce an international campaign against atrocities of the Islamic Republic and call on every to join this campaign. Sign this petition and ask others to take part. We ask all labour and human rights organizations to put pressure on, by writing to the leaders of the Islamic regime, in protest to stop their atrocities. We the undersigned demand that:
Unconditional Freedom for all political prisoners and recent detainees Abolition of cruel and inhumane stoning laws and immediate release of the 13 waiting stoning. Repeal the sentences of execution for 20 children and young adults including Shahla Jahed and Kobra Rahmanpour
Free Mahmoud salehi, Mansour osdanloo and all labour activist who have been arrested for organizing protest and strike. End persecution of May 1st activist including leaders of unemployed union Sheith Amani and Sadeeg Karimi . Free detained students and end to harassment of student in the university; Close security and religious police in universities. End harassment of teenage boys and girls and free imprisoned youth. Free all those arrested following the recent petrol protests Mina Ahadi Spokesperson for the international campaign against atrocities in Iran July 14th 2007 Signed by:
International labour solidarity
International Committee against executions
International Committee against stoning
Committee for freedom of political prisoners in Iran
Hambastegi international federation of refugees
International Campaign in defence of womens right in Iran( Germany, England, Malmo and Stockholm in Sweden)
Children First now!
Society against religion
Friends of women in the middle east association
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Student news Iran
Student news
Fear from expansion of students' protests has made universities officials decide to close down all the dorms to prevent students from gathering
Art faculty of Tehran University
On the evening of Sunday July the 15th few students of the Art faculty of Tehran University referred to the student central office to clarify the situation with their dorm and their summer semester. Instead they found themselves brutally attacked and beaten by the security guards and police forces. A number of students were injured; the condition of some of them has been reported as critical and one of the students is admitted to the ICU of one of the nearby hospitals. From Monday and in continuation with these protests, art students went into a strike and started a mass protest refusing to show up at the exam sessions and announcing that final exams will be cancelled. During their gathering they protested against the attack on students, against the atmosphere of repression in the university. They asked the Dean of university to resign and the head of security to step down, and asked that their problems regarding the dorm and summer semester be solved. After these protests, 22 students of the art faculty of Tehran University have been called in by the disciplinary committee. Eight of these are members of the student union.
Tehran Polytechnic University
Nine students of Tehran Polytechnic University are detained at Evin prison. It is now 2 months that these students are under the most severe tortures. The Islamic government is trying to make them confess to false allegations and charges made by the government.
Ninth of July anniversary
Eight years ago, when Tehran University students started large protests against governmental terror and censorship, many ordinary people joined the protests which continued for 6 days. The government repressed the protests brutally by arresting many students and individuals, some of which are still in prison. In that day the governmental forces threw a student from a third floor window and killed him.
This year on the anniversary of the Ninth of July, students and ordinary people of Tehran gathered around Tehran Polytechnic University and Tehran University to hold a large protest. Police and anti-protest forces savagely attacked people, preventing the gathering from starting and arresting 16 students.
Tehran Allameh-Tabatabyee University
According to the news received by the CYO's news headquarter, on Saturday July 14th, students of Allameh University gathered to protest against the closure of the dorms during summer. Through one of the security guards, the Dean of the university, Mr. Shariati, asked the police forces to attack the students. Many students were injured. Some were arrested but subsequently released, except one student whose location is unknown. Students continued their protests on Sunday morning and stressing on their demands but thus far no positive response has been heard from the University Dean.
http://cyoiran.wordpress.com/
Fear from expansion of students' protests has made universities officials decide to close down all the dorms to prevent students from gathering
Art faculty of Tehran University
On the evening of Sunday July the 15th few students of the Art faculty of Tehran University referred to the student central office to clarify the situation with their dorm and their summer semester. Instead they found themselves brutally attacked and beaten by the security guards and police forces. A number of students were injured; the condition of some of them has been reported as critical and one of the students is admitted to the ICU of one of the nearby hospitals. From Monday and in continuation with these protests, art students went into a strike and started a mass protest refusing to show up at the exam sessions and announcing that final exams will be cancelled. During their gathering they protested against the attack on students, against the atmosphere of repression in the university. They asked the Dean of university to resign and the head of security to step down, and asked that their problems regarding the dorm and summer semester be solved. After these protests, 22 students of the art faculty of Tehran University have been called in by the disciplinary committee. Eight of these are members of the student union.
Tehran Polytechnic University
Nine students of Tehran Polytechnic University are detained at Evin prison. It is now 2 months that these students are under the most severe tortures. The Islamic government is trying to make them confess to false allegations and charges made by the government.
Ninth of July anniversary
Eight years ago, when Tehran University students started large protests against governmental terror and censorship, many ordinary people joined the protests which continued for 6 days. The government repressed the protests brutally by arresting many students and individuals, some of which are still in prison. In that day the governmental forces threw a student from a third floor window and killed him.
This year on the anniversary of the Ninth of July, students and ordinary people of Tehran gathered around Tehran Polytechnic University and Tehran University to hold a large protest. Police and anti-protest forces savagely attacked people, preventing the gathering from starting and arresting 16 students.
Tehran Allameh-Tabatabyee University
According to the news received by the CYO's news headquarter, on Saturday July 14th, students of Allameh University gathered to protest against the closure of the dorms during summer. Through one of the security guards, the Dean of the university, Mr. Shariati, asked the police forces to attack the students. Many students were injured. Some were arrested but subsequently released, except one student whose location is unknown. Students continued their protests on Sunday morning and stressing on their demands but thus far no positive response has been heard from the University Dean.
http://cyoiran.wordpress.com/
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Basra Workers
Basra workers of the Gas sector: update
While working in their night shift, two workers of the South Gas Company, Khor Al Zubair area, were stung by poisonous scorpions in June 2007. Both workers had to wait overnight and endure the poison effects because of the lack of a night-time clinic, an ambulance, and an telephone operator which can call the general hospital. Another worker, Gtafeh Nissan Telfah, had died two years ago from a heart attack for the same reason, i.e. the non-availability of an ambulance.
Two Gas workers from Khor Al Zubair were poisoned by gases of propane and butane. As a result, they suffocated and fainted because of the failure of the workplace to provide sufficient precautions.
In the fluid isolation/ Natural Gas Liquids site (NGL) in the North Rumaila field, the workers are assigned to hazardous tasks without adequate precaution for workplace safety; they clean the "Vessels" in ways which cause burns and injuries to them.
The South Gas Company workers demand to be paid the remaining annual benefits (20% of the total amount), similar to the other oil sectors' workers.
Firemen of the oil sector do not receive danger benefits although they frequently put out fires of the oil and the non-oil sectors. The Old Factory does not have a fire-fighting vehicle or any fire extinguishing equipment in Khor Al Zubair although the reservoirs of the factory are full of gas. Consequently, any accident of fire will put the lives of the employees under danger and will destroy the factory.
The gas sector workers are subject to inhaling Ethylene, a hazardous gas which results in many ailments if inhaled for long periods. Many were harmed as a result of inhaling this gas during the fire accident of the operating units in the petrochemicals last February.
Report was prepared by: Faisal Kassim and Sabah Dnaiyef Shahan.
Gas Workers' Union Committee – Basrah
Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq
While working in their night shift, two workers of the South Gas Company, Khor Al Zubair area, were stung by poisonous scorpions in June 2007. Both workers had to wait overnight and endure the poison effects because of the lack of a night-time clinic, an ambulance, and an telephone operator which can call the general hospital. Another worker, Gtafeh Nissan Telfah, had died two years ago from a heart attack for the same reason, i.e. the non-availability of an ambulance.
Two Gas workers from Khor Al Zubair were poisoned by gases of propane and butane. As a result, they suffocated and fainted because of the failure of the workplace to provide sufficient precautions.
In the fluid isolation/ Natural Gas Liquids site (NGL) in the North Rumaila field, the workers are assigned to hazardous tasks without adequate precaution for workplace safety; they clean the "Vessels" in ways which cause burns and injuries to them.
The South Gas Company workers demand to be paid the remaining annual benefits (20% of the total amount), similar to the other oil sectors' workers.
Firemen of the oil sector do not receive danger benefits although they frequently put out fires of the oil and the non-oil sectors. The Old Factory does not have a fire-fighting vehicle or any fire extinguishing equipment in Khor Al Zubair although the reservoirs of the factory are full of gas. Consequently, any accident of fire will put the lives of the employees under danger and will destroy the factory.
The gas sector workers are subject to inhaling Ethylene, a hazardous gas which results in many ailments if inhaled for long periods. Many were harmed as a result of inhaling this gas during the fire accident of the operating units in the petrochemicals last February.
Report was prepared by: Faisal Kassim and Sabah Dnaiyef Shahan.
Gas Workers' Union Committee – Basrah
Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq
Motion Regarding Iraqi Oil Law
Motion Regarding Iraqi Oil Law
This branch/union notes
The US/UK occupation of Iraq, which began in March 2003.
That Iraq is an oil rich country.
Trade unions in many sectors of industry in Iraq, including the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions.
That US companies have been researched and named by US Labour Against the War to have interests in taking over Iraqi assets including its oil.
That US government and troops have put pressure on the Iraqi government to sign a law, which effectively privatises Iraq’s oil. Unions in the oil sector have been on strike several times to try to resist such moves. They also have demands related to wages and working conditions, including a demand for wage increases; the payment of a previously agreed bonus that is based on the distribution to workers of a proportion of oil revenues achieved by the company; no salary deductions to be made for granted vacation days; and the delivery of land parcels for housing to workers. The IFOU wrote to the Minister of Oil in June 2007, outlining their demands.
In June 2007, the army surrounded oil workers while US helicopters were above them, trying to intimidate the IFOU.
This Branch/Union Condemns
The sending in of troops to crush a legitimate strike by the IFOU
This Branch/Union believes
The US has put such pressure on the Iraqi government to sign the oil law quickly, so oil profits go to US companies rather than to the Iraqi people.
That the US/UK occupation has been a disaster and the US is keen to gain “something for its investment” of troops in Iraq.
That the Iraqi people should be allowed to decide the future of their oil and its revenue.
That the strike should be settled by negotiation with the IFOU and the Iraqi government. The US should leave the oil fields and the whole country of Iraq.
That the trade unions in Iraq are its best hope for a stable and secular future.
This Branch/Union resolves
To lobby our MPs, MSPs to use their influence to tell the US to leave the Iraqi people to decide the destiny of their oil.
To send a message of solidarity to the IFOU and support their demands a settlement should be reached by negotiation without pressure from the US.
To circulate information from Iraqi trades unions in relation to the strikes and struggles of Iraqi unions to keep control of their oil, petrol, gas and other strategic resources.
To make a donation to the TUC Iraq appeal and affiliate to Iraq Union Solidarity or Iraq Union Solidarity Scotland.
This branch/union notes
The US/UK occupation of Iraq, which began in March 2003.
That Iraq is an oil rich country.
Trade unions in many sectors of industry in Iraq, including the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions.
That US companies have been researched and named by US Labour Against the War to have interests in taking over Iraqi assets including its oil.
That US government and troops have put pressure on the Iraqi government to sign a law, which effectively privatises Iraq’s oil. Unions in the oil sector have been on strike several times to try to resist such moves. They also have demands related to wages and working conditions, including a demand for wage increases; the payment of a previously agreed bonus that is based on the distribution to workers of a proportion of oil revenues achieved by the company; no salary deductions to be made for granted vacation days; and the delivery of land parcels for housing to workers. The IFOU wrote to the Minister of Oil in June 2007, outlining their demands.
In June 2007, the army surrounded oil workers while US helicopters were above them, trying to intimidate the IFOU.
This Branch/Union Condemns
The sending in of troops to crush a legitimate strike by the IFOU
This Branch/Union believes
The US has put such pressure on the Iraqi government to sign the oil law quickly, so oil profits go to US companies rather than to the Iraqi people.
That the US/UK occupation has been a disaster and the US is keen to gain “something for its investment” of troops in Iraq.
That the Iraqi people should be allowed to decide the future of their oil and its revenue.
That the strike should be settled by negotiation with the IFOU and the Iraqi government. The US should leave the oil fields and the whole country of Iraq.
That the trade unions in Iraq are its best hope for a stable and secular future.
This Branch/Union resolves
To lobby our MPs, MSPs to use their influence to tell the US to leave the Iraqi people to decide the destiny of their oil.
To send a message of solidarity to the IFOU and support their demands a settlement should be reached by negotiation without pressure from the US.
To circulate information from Iraqi trades unions in relation to the strikes and struggles of Iraqi unions to keep control of their oil, petrol, gas and other strategic resources.
To make a donation to the TUC Iraq appeal and affiliate to Iraq Union Solidarity or Iraq Union Solidarity Scotland.
Monday, 23 July 2007
GWIF
http://www.iraqtradeunions.org/
http://www.petitiononline.com/iq2007/petition.html
Stop the killing, Kidnapping and Intimidation of Journalists in Iraq
http://www.petitiononline.com/iq2007/petition.html
Stop the killing, Kidnapping and Intimidation of Journalists in Iraq
Sunday, 22 July 2007
Saturday, 21 July 2007
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