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Monday November 26, 2007 15:58
by pat c
Irannian Trade Union Activist Imprisoned
This is an appeal for support for the imprisoned Iranian TU Activist Reza Dehghan. Messages of support should be sent to: s.naghashan@yahoo.com
Reza Dehghan, a labour activist and a member of the Founding Committee of the Syndicate of Building 's Painters and Decoration's Workers have been arrested and incarcerated since November 18, 2007. The following letter to international labour organization has been sent by the founding Committee on November 25, 2007.
This is to inform you that Reza Dehghan, labor activist and founding member of painters union in Iran has been detained by the Iranian security forces with no regard to legal procedures without producing any court summon nor informing him, his family or any one about his charges.
Since his detention on 19 Nov 2007 till this date none of the responsible authorities have responded about the reason of his imprisonment and even his parents were not permitted to visit him in Evin prison.
Reza Dehghan is one of the young activists who has spared no effort to establish an independent syndicate.
We ask for your help by any humanly way and mean to free Reza Dehghan and all other labor activists.
Signed by: Founding Committee of Painters Union
Date: 25 November 2007
s.naghashan@yahoo.com
Full text of letter at:
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Another human rights activist is imprisoned. Emadeddin clearly opposes US Imperialism.
We are writing to express our grave concern regarding the arrest of Mr. Emadeddin Baghi on October 14, 2007, and his continued detention. Mr. Baghi is best known internationally as a prominent Iranian journalist, author, and intellectual, and as a leading human rights defender inside Iran as well as the founder (in 2003) of the Association for Defending the Rights of Prisoners in Iran--the pioneering organization of its kind in Iran, which defends the basic rights and human dignity of all prisoners and advocates the abolition of torture and the death penalty.
Prior to his recent arrest, Mr. Baghi already had served a jail sentence from 2000 to 2003 for his journalistic activities and was subsequently subjected to regular intimidation and harassment by the authorities, ranging from the confiscation of his passport to "legal" proceedings against him and his family members.
Mr. Baghi consistently has spoken out against violent social change while promoting freedom of expression and greater democratic rights. In his unflagging endorsement of freedom of expression in Iran, Baghi steadfastly has condemned outside overt or covert state intervention in Iranian affairs. This includes his public rebuke of the US State Department's allocation of funds for "pro-democracy" groups and human rights NGOs inside Iran.
The full text of this statement is at the link below.
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/dec/1021.html
His arrest might have something to with this.
"I find Mr Bush a resilient and determined individual and think it would be out of character for the Americans to leave him out in the cold at such a crucial time. I listened to one of the three debates and I found Mr Bush very sensible and philosophical and his comments tuned with today's needs and problems."
Reza Dehghan, Shiraz, Iran.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3952553.stm
Scroll down to the online comment section.
Also a quick google unearths this website.
http://rdehghan.blogspot.com/
Is he being set up?
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