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Iranian trade unionist at risk

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Solidarity with Iranian trade unionists

TUC protest letter

7 June 2010

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has written to the Iranian Ambassador in London to protest about the transfer of jailed Iranian trade union leader Mansour Osanloo to a Revolutionary Guards' prison in Tehran. Mansour has been at risk before, and the TUC and International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) are concerned for his safety.

The TUC letter follows, and the ITF's protest is here.

Dear Ambassador

Mansour Osanloo

On behalf of the British trade union movement, and its 6.3 million members, I would be grateful if you could urge your Government to abandon its persecution of the Tehran bus workers' trade union leader Mansour Osanloo.

The TUC understands that Mansour has recently been moved to an isolation ward at Rajai Shar prison. We are concerned that he may be violently mistreated there, as has happened in the past.

I therefore call on you to urge your Government either to stop this latest persecution of Mansour Osanloo or at least to allow his family and his representatives to visit him and check where he is being held and his state of health.

I would once again strongly urge your Government to release Mansour Osanloo and his colleague Ebrahim Madadi. Iran can only benefit from the introduction of measures to guarantee respect for the basic norms of human and trade union rights.

Yours sincerely

BRENDAN BARBER

General Secretary

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