HUMAN RIGHTS LETTER BY FIVE FRENCH SYNDICATES TO MACRON TAKE ACTION TO SAVE THE LIFE OF REZA SHAHABI

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NCRI - Five French labour syndicates, together with Amnesty International, called on the French President Emanuel Macron to intervene to protect Reza Shahabi, member of the Syndicate of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company. Reza Shahabi has been on hunger strike for 35 days, and his life is in danger.
The letter to the French President is part of a “Collective” action consisting of five French syndicates including the CGT, the CFDT, the FSU, UNSA and

 

We are calling for Reza Shahabi and other hunger-striking labour activists, teachers and labour movement prisoners in Iranian jails to be released. Reza, a bus driver trade unionist, and a group of about 50 others have now been on hunger strike for almost a month in protest about the legality of their imprisonment and prison conditions. Their lives are in danger. Reza Shahabi’s comrade Shahrokh Zamani died in the same prison in September 2015.

 
NCRI - 
Amnesty International’s recent report caught in a web of repression shows a detailed overview of the repression facing human rights activists in Iran.
Under international law, enforced disappearances are crimes. International human rights bodies have recognized that an enforced disappearance may cause such severe mental distress for family members, who have the right not to be subjected to inhumane or degrading treatment.

 
NCRI - The state-run Tasnim news agency affiliated to the terrorist Quds force reported on Monday, September 11, that three supporters of a prominent spiritual teacher called Mohammad Ali Taheri who participated in the protest gathering against death sentence of their teacher, were arrested by the agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence on Monday.

 

NCRI - The Secretary-General of the United Nations received a statement from the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty, a non-governmental organization in general consultative status, Women's Human Rights International Association, Edmund Rice International Limited, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status, and International Educational Development, Inc., a non-governmental organization.

 
Amnesty International, 11 September 2017 - The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a human rights defender arrested from her home last night, who has previously been targeted by the authorities for her peaceful activism, said Amnesty International.Raheleh Rahemipour has spent years trying to uncover the truth about what happened to her brother and

 
This is the title of a statement submitted to the Thirty-sixth session of the U.N. Human Rights Council will be held 11-29 September 2017, in the European headquarter of the United Nations.The Joint written statement was submitted to the Secretary General, by France Libertés: Fondation Danielle Mitterrand, Women's Human Rights International Association, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status,

 
It has been reported that the hunger strike in Rajai Shahr Prison is growing. More and more prisoners, from other prisons across Iran too, are joining in the strike.The hunger strike was started in Rajai Shahr Prison, with around two dozen participants who are continuing indefinitely. Several prisoners in Ardabil Prison joined in solidarity, partaking in a two-week hunger strike.

 
BY: SUSAN PRICE
Sydney, Green Left Weekly, September 9, 2017 - Members of Sydney's Iranian community and their supporters marked the 29th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran with an exhibition and gathering in Sydney's Martin Place on September 3. The display included an 8-metre-long list containing the names of more than 4700 victims.During the summer of 1988, thousands of Iranian political prisoners

 
Since its foundation, by Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, the regime of Iran has succeeded in maintaining its absolute power through the massive use of torture and executions of its citizens. They are now trying to cover up their crimes.The ugly reality is that thousands of Iranians were sent to the gallows and torture chambers for absurd and preposterous charges of “enmity against God” or “spying for external powers.”

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