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TUC Iran Campaign

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19 October 2007

Send a message of solidarity for Iranian trade unionist Mansour Osanloo

Please join the international campaign to support the jailed Iranian bus worker trade unionist Mansour Osanloo (and his colleagues, also in jail in Iran for demanding basic trade union freedoms we take for granted).

Amnesty International's latest e-action for Mansour Osanloo, demanding urgent humanitarian assistance to address his medical problems, is the fastest growing Amnesty International e-action ever! Now make it the biggest.

• Send a message to the Iranian government through the Amnesty International website
• Visit the ITF website to find out what more you can do

Background

Mansour Osanloo is President of the Sandikaye Kargarane Sherkate Vahed union (Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company), and had already been imprisoned for his role in the earlier protests in support of union rights for Tehran's bus workers.

While on his way home on the evening of 10 July, Osanloo was getting off a bus, when he was attacked and kidnapped by unknown assailants in an unmarked car, which had been following him. Witnesses on the bus stated that he was beaten severely during the incident.

Since his capture, colleagues and relatives have managed to discover that he is being detained in Evin prison in Tehran, and believe that the authorities are holding him without charges, on orders of the Revolutionary Court Judge Saeed Mortazavi. He has not been allowed visits or telephone calls.

The campaign is supported by the TUC, the International Trade Union Confederation, the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), to which Mansour's union belongs, and Amnesty International. Osanloo recently visited the UK, and met with transport unions and the TUC.

Briefing document (300 words) issued 18 Oct 2007