Jailed labour activist Jafar Azimzadeh has ended his hunger strike but still kept in prison. Please support Azimzadeh, and demand his immediate release by sending a letter to the regime in Iran.
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Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
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A statement of more than 1000 of rights activists, families of political prisoners in support of the release of jailed labour activist Jafar Azimzadeh.
We have long been witnessing the putting of pressure, arresting, torturing, and getting forced confessions or long time imprisonments of university students, labour, children, women, or other civil activists.
For years, people have been struggling with their costly expenses and their poverty.
For years, workers, teachers, retired seniors, nurses, and many more people in society have been arrested, flogged, or imprisoned for requesting their basic, minimum wages and salaries.
Jafar Azimzadeh, the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Free Trade Union of Iran, charged with security charges, has sentenced to spend 5 years in prison when he protested against the assigned minimum wage set by Iran’s economic officials and for collecting a protest petition of 40,000 signatures.
He had already jeopardized his health in 2016 and went on a 63-day hunger strike against labelling the activities of trade union and social activists.
Now, Jafar Azimzadeh is in prison again!
Despite his warnings at the beginning of the Corona outbreak and his demand for the release of all prisoners, not only were his warnings and demands ignored, but his seek of leave was ignored. Also, a new case and sentence has been issued against him!
Jafar Azimzadeh was infected with coronavirus in Evin Prison and had to be taken to hospital, but without prior notice and under the pretext of being sent to hospital, he was transferred to solitary confinement in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.
In protest of his sudden transfer to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, keeping his family unaware of his condition and non-compliance with health protocols in prisons to deal with Corona. He has been on a hunger strike since Sunday, August 17th.
We, the signatories of this letter, condemn the arrest and imprisonment of trade union, social and civil activists, as well as we demand the immediate release or unconditional transfer of Jafar Azimzadeh to hospital for his treatment.
Singed by the following:
Akram Rahimpour ( wife of Jafar Azimzadeh )- Shahnaz Akmali and Mohammad Karim Beigi ( Parents of Mostafa Karim Beigi )- Shahin Mahinfar ( mother of Amirarshad Tajmir – Jafar Ramezani and Houri Golestani ( parents of Behnoud Ramezani) – Monir Abdi ( wife of Ismail Abdi ) – Seddique Malekifard ( wife of Hashem Khastar ) – Ehteram Shakouri ( mother of Nahid Khodajo) – Hosein Daemi ( father of Atena Daemi ) – Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi – Aziz Qasemzadeh – Mohammad Ali Zahmatkesh – Adineh Beigi – Alexander Lotfi – Jafar Ebrahimi – Keyvan Samimi – Masoumeh Dehghan – Farangis Mazloum – Saeid Shirzad – Ruhollah Mardani – Raheleh Rahemipour – Nahid Khodajo – Nasrin Javadi – Parvin Mohammadi – Sharif Saedpour – Sheet Amani – Muzaffar Saleh Nia – Waleh Zamani – Atefeh Rangriz – Hosein Mirbahari – Akbar Jazdi – Mehraneh Ghasemi – Giti Pourfazel – Leila Azimzadeh – Hourie Khanpour – Asadollah Fakhimi – Javanmir Moradi – Anisha Asadollahi – Sanaz Allahyari – Amir Amirgoli – Amir Chamani – Asal Mohammadi – Shahla Entesari – Afsaneh Azimzadeh – Sorour Salemi – Payman Shajirati – Amirhosein Mohammadifard – Negar Masoudi – Seyed Hadi Ahmadi – Saeid Rezaei – Farhad Sheikhi – Lotfollah Ahmadi – Tayeb Chatani – Rafigh Karimi Hadi Soleimani – Razgar Soleimani – Farideh Mohammadi – RaMohman Fathi – Mehdi Fakhri – Sarveh Qaderzadeh – Soraya Azizi – Rada Mardani – Reza Hagh Nazarian – Hosein Shaparak – Fayque Rasouli – Jamil Rahmani – Fatemeh Maleki – Elias Gorbani – Farah Qadernia – Shokoh Jafari – Farah Hatami – Hassan Ghorbani – Ehteram Abdus – Narges Mansouri – Malihe Karimuddini – Maryam Heydari – Mohammad Nourizad – Fereshte Asanlou – Roya Gandomvash – Mehrshad Gandomvash – Mahsa Gandomvash – Mohammad Moein – Fatemeh Nemati – Maryam Bahari – Masoumeh Bahari – Nadja Bahari – Nina Bahari – Golaleh Ghorbani – Heydar Ghorbani – Farshad Fathian – Zahra Rafiee – Shahla Jahanbin – Abbas Vahedian Shahroudi – Jawad Rahimpour – Mohammad Khaksar – Siran Mohammadhoseini – Hosein Kazemi – Hosein Farzin – Zeinab Sepehri – Masoud Zare Azghandi – Rogihe Zare Pourheydari – Marjan Davoudi – Safyar Qorbani – Shahab Josephi – Arezoo Murad Weissi – Sakineh Bagheri – Yadullah Bagheri – Nahid Bahari – Mona Bahari – Hayden Bahari – Vahid Mirshekar – Shadieh Jalali Sani- Sonia Sbati – Sara Malek – Pouran Nazemi – Hamid Biazar – Nasrin Rostami – Amin Sedaghat – Shahin Meysami – Mohammad Shahroukhi – Ismail Aghai – Hamid Zarghami – Lobat Bakhtiari – Latif Roozikhah – Sepideh Bagheri – Javaneh Bagheri – Baharan Bagheri – Ramin Karimi – Ayob Mohammadi – Shabbo Allah weissi – Shiva Qorbani – Armin Sharifeh – Hawjen Latifi – Mehran Hoseini – Saeid Sheykhi – Vahid Karimi – Aydin Qolinejad Boddagh – Erfan Kahzad – Anar Ahmadi – Sima Radmanesh – Atefeh Tamjidi – Saeid Shahraki Mohammadi – Azad Sheykhi – Parviz Allahyari – Saeid Naderi – Kamyar Fakour – Rahman Sofi Mirza – Shabnam Ashouri – Saman Qadernejad – Baset Moradi – Mohammad Davari – Asrin Radmanesh – Amir Nozar Nooripour – Fatemeh Mir Ahmadi – Afsoon Dehghani – Mohammad Mahdavifar – Niloufar Fathi – Marja Kamali – Rojin Nabavi – Asrin Nabavi – Rahimeh Moshirpanahi – Tofique Miraki – Pouran Rahmani – Mahdie Bigonah – Negin Aramesh – Narges Khorami – Lona Josefzadeh – Ali Shahram Behdarvand – Hyva Moradi – Zobeir Mardoukhi – Delnja Rahimi – Houshyar Zamani – Mehdi Ghafari – Homayoon Goodarzi – Neda Asadi – Reza Sharifeh – Reza Nemani – Abi Bahari – Tasha Gholrokh – Marzih Doris – Fatemeh Barani – Aref Rahimi – Tamid Zamani – Orfan Ghnehi – Iraj Mohammadi – Sona Morovat – Kiomars Zamani – Aliakbar Morovat – Mehrdad Morovat – Reza Ahmadi – Eghbal Mohammadi- Soheila Mohammadi- Gholamreza Asadi – Mehri Asadi – Avareh Sadeghi – Bayan Karimi – Masomeh Abdi – Kajal Hydarian – Mehrdad Abdi Nejad – Rahman Sofi Mirza – Fakhrredin Ahmad Savad Kohi – Milad Ghorbani – Ahmad Shabani Fard – Esmaeil Fatehi – Maryam Borhan – Sam Borbor – Alireza Adineh – Reza Sedaghat – Parviz Salehi – Fariba Aghaee – Golandam Aghaee – Bahar Aghaee- Afshin Aghaee – Fatemeh. 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