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Iran: jailed labour activist moved to interrogation unit of prison

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 7, 2014
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  • Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, Iran, Labour activist
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, who has been in prison since June 2010 on a five-year sentence for union activities, has been moved to Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran. Ward 209 is the interrogation unit of the prison, run by the Ministry of Intelligence, where torture and maltreatment is routinely practised as part of the interrogations. […]
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Iran: another worker arrested as persecution of labour activists intensifies

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 24, 2013
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  • Ghaleb Hosseini, Iran, Labour activist
Following the recent arrest of six labour activists in the city of Sanandaj in the west of Iran, another worker by the name of Ghaleb Hosseini (pictured on right), a member of the Co-ordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organisations, was arrested on 19 March. The activists arrested earlier in the month are Vafa Ghaderi, […]
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