Iran - July 2 2020

Declaration of four independent labor organizations in Iran

Urgent appeal: Condemn the death penalty for protesters against poverty and squalor!

The silence on the death sentences for the detainees of the November 2019 uprising, would lead to more victims among these arrested protesters. In a national uprising in November 2019, hundreds of protesters were shot dead by sniper shooting on the streets, just for protesting rising poverty and high prices and misery. More than 8,000 protesters, mostly from the working class and poor neighborhoods, were arrested and jailed. The government's response to the protests was maximum brutality, and not even small steps were taken to change the deplorable conditions for the country's workers, employees and poor. It was crystal clear that the authorities were trying to create an atmosphere of public intimidation by stifling any protest from its inception, to protect the interests of the capitalists and the wealthy barons and thieves, and they had no economic plans to improve miserable living conditions of male and female workers and disadvantaged. We hereby express our solidarity with Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohammad Rajabi, the three protesters facing the death penalty, as well as with other incarcerated participants by in the November 2019 protests. We denounce the shooting, imprisonment and pressure of all kinds, social, political and security threats against protesters, and we demand the immediate release of all detainees and the closure of all similar cases, also returning to the 2018-2019 national protests with the same demands. Under the pretext of sanctions, all economic pressure cannot be directed at workers, wage earners and the underprivileged, and at the same time, these sanctions to be an opportunity for capitalists and officials and "nobles" to earn even more money. Methods of governing the country, laws and regulations must change immediately so as to lessen pressure on the working class and, on the contrary, the pressure of the crisis must be transferred to the wealthy, state and private capitalists and to the government officials, who are responsible for the current situation. Great corruption in the upper ranks and subsistence pressure on the working class and the marginalized are also the mainstay of the government system that created unemployment, high prices, speculation and embezzlement. Real change is only possible in the hands of male and female workers. Haft-Tapeh Sugarcane Company Workers Union Eslamshahr Association of Teachers of Commerce Kurdistan-Marivan Association of Teachers of Commerce Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Workers Union Workers have no choice but unity and organization! Updates from the International Alliance to Support Workers in Iran, dated July 14, 2020: Since this statement was issued by the aforementioned workers' organizations in Iran, the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohammad Rajabi by the Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their trial was totally untrue and absolutely unfair. Their lawyers had been denied access to them. They had been tortured and forced to make unfounded confessions. Sources within Iran and also from Amnesty International reported that these prisoners were subjected to torture by beatings, electric shocks and hanging upside down. Only massive protests and global condemnations could stop their execution. Send letters of protest to the email addresses below: Also send them through accredited Iranian diplomatic representatives in your country, if there is an Iranian diplomatic mission in your country. Although the addresses of the Iranian embassies change frequently, see the following link which could be useful: https://www.embassypages.com/iran Leader of the Islamic Republic AyatollahSayed 'Ali Khamenei Twitter: @khamenei_ir (English) or @Khamenei_fa (Persian) Email: info_leader@leader.ir or contact@leader.ir President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani Email: media@rouhani.ir Twitter: @HassanRouhani (English) and @Rouhani_ir (Persian) The judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran - High Council for Human Rights info@humanrights-iran.ir Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Email: iran@un.int Cc: info@workers-iran.org

Saeed Tamjidi, Mohammad Rajabi y Amirhossein Moradi Compañeros condenados irán