Political prisoners and students go on hunger strike in solidarity with workers and teachers

NCRI

A group of political prisoners in Evin, Gohardasht and Orumieh prisons have started a hunger strike in solidarity with workers and teachers since Friday, April 30, according to the Social Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran inside the country. They have announced that they will continue with their strike until the end of the Teachers’ Day on May 2. The report adds that more than 50 students from Azad University of Shahr-e Kord have also gone on hunger strike in solidarity with workers.

Dozens of labor activists are currently in jail for their protests against the Iranian regime’s suppressive and anti-labor policies and for their campaign to secure minimum rights of the workers.

Messrs. Mansour Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi, president and vice president of Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company; Ali Nejati, president of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane factory of Shoush and Jalil Ahmadi, Fereydoun Nikoofar, Qorban Ali Pour and Mohammad Heidari from the same factory; Afshin Shams from Ali-Goudarz factories; Salah Nemati and Mohammad Takab, workers from Sanandaj, are among the activists in jail.

The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations Security Council, International Labor Organization, all trade unions and international organizations defending the rights of workers to condemn the regime’s suppressive and anti-labor policies and adopt urgent and binding measures to get all political prisoners, especially labor activists, released in Iran.