After the execution of Eshan Fattahian November 11, the International Campaign against Executions informs that Moarefi Bahman, Another Kurdish political prisoner, may soon be executed. Here the translation of the call published November 13 by Revolutionary Road:
Bahman Moarefi called "Shirko" Kurdish activist was recognized Mohareb (enemy of God) by the Iranian judicial system! Shirko Moarefi, 30, originally from Banneh (Kurdistan province) has been accused of propaganda against the regime and fight against God and was sentenced to death. He was arrested on 1 November 2007 and detained at the Intelligence Office of Saghez. Currently, he is prohibited from receiving visits in detention.
In preparation for his execution, Shirko Moarefi was transferred to an isolation cell at Central Prison Saghez. It is a militant Kurdish civilians arrested in Saghez and sentenced to death after being interrogated and severely tortured.
Bahramian Khalil's lawyer Shirko Moarefi, in an interview with the Countryside Rights of Civil and Political Prisoners to confirm the new transfer Shirko in solitary confinement for his execution, said: " the verdict is contrary to all legal bases "and that he will not stop until Shirko day will be saved.
Bahramian also urged all media and human rights activists not to remain indifferent during those critical days and to inform and alert public opinion to act against this unjust verdict.
This lawyer has released his phone number to work with the media and keep them informed.
Dr. Khalil Bahramian, Lawyer: 00989121463518
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Your Excellency,
I am concerned about the situation Shirko Moarefi, 30, a member of the Kurdish minority sentenced to death. In preparation for his imminent execution, he was taken to the quarantine section of the prison Saqqez, where he has been detained since last November and where he suffered from various abuses and violence. It also says poor health, suffering from physical and psychological trauma.
Shirko Moarefi was sentenced to death for what is called "crimes against state security" and "enemy of God."
I am concerned that the scheduled execution would be a retaliation for a wave of assassinations and assassination attempts against officials held in September 2009 in the province of Kurdistan. Shirko Moarefi has nothing to do with these crimes.
So I respectfully ask you immediately stop this execution and commute his sentence.
I also ask you to consider whether to impose an immediate moratorium and clear of all executions as a first step towards the end of this punishment: the international image of the Islamic Republic of Iran could take advantage of this remarkable decision.
Sincerely,
Outbox at:
a) Chief Justice:
Ayatollah Sadeqh Larijani, Office of the Head of the Judiciary Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave. south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Information from Revolutionary Road, November 4, 2009:
- Towards the Russian embassy: During the fighting, many were beaten by the Basij and security forces. They used batons and electric wires to hit so bestial and watered women and girls with tear gas. The reality is that all their drastic actions did not prevent people from continuing their protests, they continued toward the Russian embassy and their resistance is admirable.
- University of Tehran: Students were clubbed in front of the door Ghods. The girls are front and behind the boys, so they can not easily be beaten or arrested. The slogans are chanted "Down with the Velayat-e-Faqih" and "Rape, crime, low-scheme!".
- Corporate Place Eghelab: Violent clashes Eghelab Place. The Basij and knock street brutally maim and Azadi Square Eghelab. The stability of the people is admirable. People gather Vanak Square and are constantly attacked by the forces of repression, when people open the doors of their homes to offer them refuge.
- Report for Human Rights Activists in Iran: The repressive forces brutally attacked the people Motahari Street. Many people were beaten and arrêtées.Vers 16 hours, a growing number of people (estimated in thousands) began walking along the street Motahari. The young men shouted "Death to the dictator", "Obama, you're either with them or you're with us", "Khamenei is a murderer, his direction is not valid" and "Ahmadinejad is a traitor."
The Revolutionary Guards (Sepah), guards and special police forces violently attacked people with truncheons. Many people were injured and bleeding from the head and face. Many people have been arrested and transferred to unknown locations.
After the attack by soldiers of the supreme leader, people have formed local group gatherings of ten to one hundred and chanted various slogans. Each time a group was attacked, dispersed and reformed other groups at different locations.
The protests continued until 17 hours 30 and despite numerous arrests and brutal attacks, people are not parties.
Valiasr Sector: Guards are placed Valiasr. The crowd is infinite, streets and alleys are crowded. The guards seem to be unable to manage the people, a major traffic grows to Taleghani street and a large wave of people ahead of Karimkhan instead Hafte Shooting. We report the use of tear gas, arrests and slogans begin "Down with the dictator!" And "Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership is an illusion." Clashes continue Valiasr places and Hafte Shooting. The revolutionary guards are trying to suppress the people and break his protests. The courage of the people against the coup regime is surprising.
- Tehran The clashes between the people and the police and Basij forces continue to university, streets and Enghelab Hafte Shooting. The police fire into the air to disperse the demonstrators. The protesting people manifest in the streets of Tehran, Tehran University to the University Amir Kabi, Valiasr Street, Keshavarz Boulevard, north of Amir Abad ... at Haft Tir, the Basij hit by profaning insanities. Young people are beaten with batons and electric cables. The people who congregate in the aisles are attacked by special forces on a motorcycle that hit mercilessly on young, old, women and girls to disperse them. Wanting to end the slogans of the protesters who chant "Down with the dictator" and "Down with Russia," the Basij use of loudspeakers on their Toyota shouting their own slogans "Down with USA", "Death to hypocrites" and "Death to Israel". In response, protesters shouted "Death to the dictator and Russia!" And "Both Ahmadinejad arrives, it will be the same thing every day." Under the new Azadi Square, and streets and Jamazadeh Azadi, the riot police and Basij again violently bludgeon people. Many women and girls were arrested and many young men and women were injured and taken by ambulance to the hospital Khomeini.
-In the area around the street Karim Khan, the network of mobile phones is cut for several hours. Subway stations Haft-Tir, Taleqan, and Mofateh Darvazeh Doulat were closed to prevent more people will come to join the gathering place. The clashes in the areas of Valiasr Fatemi and are also very violent. While many people walk Valiasr Street from south to north, they chant "death to dictator" and "Death to Khamenei". The military attacked them with batons and tear gas. Many demonstrators were injured. The protesters ran towards the nearby alleys and tried to help the wounded with cigarette smoke and everything is possible. However, about 500 people were injured in the violent attack. Many people are seriously poisoned by tear gas and streets near the area are blocked by the Basij and the military.
- Haft-Tir Square : We are witnessing a resumption of protests to 18 hours and violent clashes between the people and the revolutionary guards are reported. People continue to stand up against the guards and singing slogans against the regime.
-Beheshti and Motahari Streets and along the boulevard Keshavarz, plastic bullets painted red are drawn on the people and they touch a red mark showing his clothes. This is to make people believe that the protester was injured. This tactic is used to cause panic among the demonstrators.
- Clashes continue Place Sadeghi and some of the slogans are "Khamenei is a murderer, his power must be broken, "" Death to Janati "and" Death to Ahmadinejad ".
- Shariat Razavi Hospital : A Shariat Razavi Hospital at Mehrabad, Tehran, when the ambulance arrived, protests were raised among nurses and hospital staff. Two young men, aged 17 and 18, were taken by ambulance, wounded during demonstrations today.
- University Polytechnic (Amir Kabir) Tehran: students at Amir Kabir University have left courses and joined the crowd. At the beginning of the street Karimkhan, the Revolutionary Guards attacked a family and taken one of their daughters and had to deal with people but have escaped with the help of their guns and batons. In the streets Nejatollahi, Iranshahr, Kheradmand, azodicarboxylate, Beh Afarin and Hafez, the presence of Revolutionary Guards and security forces was very low. Movements and crowd Valiasr Hafte Shooting has caused confusion among rangers who would run constantly between the two places.
- Protests nocturnal People shout "Death to the dictator" from the rooftops.
About 400 workers from the Iranian Aluminum Company (IrAlCo), in the city of Arak (Markazi Province, 280 kilometers west of Tehran) were arrested work Monday to protest against non-payment of salaries and other bonuses such as bonus veture past three months.
The workers' protests are increasing in Iran. In recent months, workers protested in many plants, for example Pipe Ahvaz (Ahvaz), factory Mahyamam (Isfahan), the company Govah (Tehran), in public transport (Khorramshahr), in the telecommunication sector (Shiraz), factory Pars Wagon (Arak) or in the refinery Haft Tapeh sugar (Shoush). All these workers are lagging behind in wages ranging from 3 to 10 months and have huge difficulties to meet the basic needs of their families.
Declaration of Socialist Students from the Universities of Iran against the death penalty, repression and convictions shameful student activists and labor movement.
The popular protest movement against dictatorship and corruption of capitalism Socio-Economic and Islamic continues in various forms, each time failed to even more dictatorship. At a time when campaigns were carried out after the street long intervals, the student movement has entered the battlefield with the start of the new academic year and every day we have witnessed protests and campaigns successive one university to another in a spirit of solidarity between them and the movement has grown and gained massive appeal.
Students rightly realized they had to bring in universities slogans of the people of the street and in the process follow the issues and desires of workers, women, teachers and all sections of society to the equality and freedom. In the months that followed the coup, the labor movement has become one of the most critical and most volatile on political and social arena. On the one hand, living conditions and economic situation of workers was that they had use of successive strikes in factories and industrial centers large or small. On the other, the presence of workers, even unorganized in the recent protests, their public campaigns against the dictatorship are linked and has opened a new horizon. Also, protests and workers' struggles have entered a new phase of progress and success.
government coup, since the time of the eruption of the people, has constantly sought to use its law enforcement officers to stop the momentum. Now that the government coup is the culmination internal strife, regional and international, after bullets riddled his many freedom loving people, imprisoned, tortured and disappeared many women and men who only wanted equality and freedom, he turns against social movements, particularly against the activists and leaders of worker and student movements that have been subject to heavy prison sentences and shameful.
Heavy penalties of two to five years' imprisonment were imposed last month. Disciplinary punishment, depriving students of education, and strengthening the high-security in universities, government actions are a coup against the new campaigns and continual protests by university students across the country that put him on his knees.
Similarly, arrests of labor activists, repression of strikes and pronunciation of shameful imprisonment at the hands of the Islamic dictatorship to continue its plan to crush the movement seek only to end protests and rights of the people.
The sum of repression, the government's efforts to overthrow the state, including political repression and the repression of social movements and initiatives of fighting, and the removal of social institutions such as NGOs (especially those active in the field of child rights and the fight against the shameless exploitation and abuse against children ), have created an atmosphere where public intimidation applies the death penalty, particularly those against children and young people.
The death penalty, this tool of the hideous murder held in the hands of the dictatorship governments, increases with rage and the most horrible is the execution of juveniles in Iran, whose Islamic government capitalist oppressor is pioneer and has the highest rate of executions per capita in the world. And we saw how the pressures and formal recommendations of international institutions have been ineffective in stopping them.
All these desperate attempts by the government coup show his troubled state. And neither a return to the period preceding the electoral coup, nor his building and the end of popular protests, which are becoming more radical Islamic desperate by creating an atmosphere of oppression and intimidation, are possible. It can not create a barrier against the movement. The social movement, particularly the labor movement, will be strengthened gradually as it grows and unite with other campaign and ensure its power in the struggle. Similarly, the labor movement, with the aspirations of the masses in the popular movement will be the pioneer of this struggle and will make a giant step on the horizon of the struggles of the last thirty years.
Socialist Students of universities in Iran, condemning the crackdown, the vile prison sentences against militant workers and students and the hateful wave of executions of the coup government, defend the people's struggle against dictatorship and for freedom, equality and democratic rights. We declare our solidarity with the struggle and resistance against dictatorship and put all our efforts to achieve the popular demands of the movements for social justice and freedom. And we will engage fully in all actions in this direction.
The United States and the Islamic Republic use a weapon of mass destruction against the workers of Iran
From: The newspaper Bridge No. 4
The Editorial
By: Saeed Valadbaygi
* New Circumstances have arisen from the civil disturbance in respect of the existence of the repressive regime and their inhuman policies. The national and international attention on the fundamental class movement grew. Maybe people's war against the government is no longer the same manner as videos and reports have placed after the elections, but these are the ashes at the slightest breeze, will turn again.
Anger has shown in our streets, pretext of voter fraud, but just listen to the conversations in the street to realize that this is not an atomic bomb that will explode but the explosion of a bomb in anger becomes increasingly imminent day by day. The question that caused much discontent and hopelessness is primarily the poor state of the economic situation of Iranian and prosperity. I speak for the people, the working class and the community that generates, have no capital other than the power of their arms. Poverty, unemployment, high cost of living and inflation are not new in Iran. The Iranian have lived for years economic pressure, but in recent years of economic crisis with the failure of international policy with the West, have created very difficult conditions for the Islamic republic. These circumstances have evolved to the point where the government has drawn its own fatal bullets. The Legislative Assembly of the Islamic Republic has in recent weeks, approved a plan for "targeting of subsidies." This accident is precisely the other side of a coin that grows in America. The Congress has finally approved In terms of "economic sanctions over wide.
The objective of the plan approved by the Islamic Council is the eradication of "government subsidies" in the sale of energy such as oil, gas, gasoline, electricity ... in addition to some basic foodstuffs. It was expected that the implementation of this plan of approximately $ 20 billion (a quarter of the country's annual budget) goes directly impose the cost of living. The removal of subsidies is not a phenomenon peculiar to the Islamic Republic, but a joint exercise of Burgesses for so-called "efficiency" of the economic function of government. A directive of Ahmadinejad intends to implement the economic burden and the budget deficit falls on the shoulders of the toiling masses. But the other issue is that this plan corresponds with streams of other citizens, without consideration to matters political.
Multiple streams National Islamic nationalism to pro-Western liberals, Dariush Homayoun Khatami and Rafsanjani and Bani Sadr ... all are in favor of this plan and it can be concluded before the working class. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic is trying to kill humans and their economic well-being in a much more deadly and inhumane and not without reason that all said streams are sitting in silence.
But Washington will put another level - for a "broader economic sanction" in place. The U.S. Congress with the decision, which apparently is being implemented in the framework of the nuclear program of Iran, the Iranians will in problems and economic and social pressures most serious at the end through remonstrance of the population, it can be won at a very high economically and politically. The direct result of the approval of both schemes is the pressure unbearable for the Iranians. economic sanctions is a weapon of mass destruction, a weapon is used by both poles against the people. The results of economic sanctions by the not too distant, and Iraq show that nearly 5000 children and elderly people die each month due to the effects of these sanctions. This figure should be multiplied for a period of 10 years to see the effects of these weapons of mass destruction more clearly. Just as economic sanctions have failed to weaken the government of Saddam Hussein, they will not succeed against the inhumane policy of the Islamic Republic, but rather open the hands of mafias and factions of government. Years of treatment against employees and various industrial sectors by the Islamic Republic - particularly in recent months - evidence of the mafia economy. A mafia has even been trained in pre-election televised debates, and whose case has been discussed before the eyes of the people.
Given the current situation, every day a large part is devoted to new workers and rebels that alone is a little bit of joint pain and punches that sound everyday of the lower classes of society. Iranian workers know they must speak out against the inhumane policies and with their own forces change the status quo in favor of the majority. Previously, they organized independent unions and created the same principle many times and their actions have been erased by prison terms and flogging. The Islamic Republic is well known that the assembly of workers in the class struggle is very dangerous and is the cause of the collapse of the foundations of order. For this reason, the system reacts to the slightest sign of action for workers with inhuman, against the most diligent members of the community. The Islamic Republic has issued the flogging and prison terms for workers in Sanandaj. Their crime was participation in the International Workers Day on 1 May The Islamic Republic, through the union leaders removed as Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi to the strike of bus drivers showed that will stop at nothing in his attacks against workers and their legitimate claims. But these days, the news is different in the newspapers. Yes, more prison sentences for the leaders of both workers and the union leaders Haft Tappeh Neishekar, which in recent years have represented the workers' struggle against the government. The Islamic Republic for sentencing in jail for these workers. Their crime is to have unions establishing and organizing the strike in an effort to collect their wages in arrears. This is a clear and shameless attack against workers who must be answered by the locals.
few days ago the workers of Ahvaz Pipe works and Pars Wagon took to the streets to protest against the anti-labor laws and the non-payment of wage arrears. Setting fire to tires and to take control of the roads that surround the city and factories, they sounded the siren of the workers' revolt. Although insignificant reactionary slogans can be heard these days, the breath of the fight workers for their rights with the national organization, gives hope for the future of the labor movement. Protests by workers of the most popular forms of protest in society that we have witnessed in recent days when the people of Ahvaz have joined the protests by hundreds of workers, shouting slogans against government policies. Before that, in view of the elections, the workers announced they would not participate in elections and they believed they would not have occurred under democratic conditions for the benefit of the majority. When Moussavi visited southern Iran, the workers wore countless placards announced that all candidates were of the same ilk, and no monitoring program to distinguish the well-being and improving conditions for workers. So not only do they refrain from taking part in elections, but they also take exception to the status quo. As the presence of workers on the street can not be because reformers and representatives of Mousavi and Khatami and seized in the name of the green movement. The desires of this movement have been clearly stated, on May 1st, International Workers Day. I end this piece with a statement of the Union free workers from Iran, which expresses and represents the voice of workers, directly:
The Iranian Workers Day Resolution of May 1
The current financial crisis and its destructive consequences for the working class in the world has further expanded its shadow over the daily lives of Iranian workers, but the injustices they suffer is the result of the domination of the capitalist class in Iran.
injustices such as
Salary, keep workers under the poverty line, large scale redundancies, withholding workers' wages for months, the imposition of temporary contracts and contracts for white workers by enterprises, imprisonment and flogging of workers to inhibit disobedience and resistance, lack of fair contracts and legal.
These are not problems that have emerged in Iran with the new wave of economic crisis. Such injustices exist in Iran for many years and the crisis gets worse every year. We will not keep silent against these abhorrent practices inhumane and not allow them to trample our rights, in addition to what they already have. We are the leading producers of wealth in society, and we feel it is our legitimate right to live according to the highest standards of living.
May 1st is an international day of solidarity among the working class and the day workers in the global fight against the oppressive regimes of capitalism and the expression of their desire for a world free of oppression and exploitation .
This year, the working class celebrated the 1st of May while the world capitalist system was mired in an economic crisis increasingly destructive and struggling to free themselves from this mess by all possible means.
The economic crisis now demonstrated the inability of the capitalist system to cope with its problems, having found no alternative but to transfer the weight of the crisis on the shoulders of the working class worldwide. This reflects the fact that in the post Eastern bloc and the declaration of the end of history by the decadent capitalist world, there remains no alternative for the working class in the civilized world, as free themselves from capitalist relations inhuman inhumane.
We deserve a decent life and we'll make sure we mitigate these problems avecnotre and solidarity by forming unions, which are independent of government and corporate influence.
Therefore, our workers are demanding the following as a minimum program which takes effect immediately: 1-
Job security for all workers and the abolition of temporary contracts, and newly made white.
2-We consider the minimum wage fixed by the Board of work as the imposition of the progressive death of millions of working class families, and we insist on an immediate increase in the minimum wage on the basis of legitimate claims workers, carried by the workers' real representatives and their independent unions.
3-The formation of independent labor unions, the right to strike, protest rallies free and freedom of expression is our legitimate rights, and requests should be granted unconditionally as the inalienable rights of all workers .
4 - Unpaid wages of workers must be paid immediately and from now on, this should be considered a crime, prosecutable in the courts and consequences enforced.
5-dismissal of workers using various pretexts to cease and all those sacked, or entering the labor market, should benefit from a suitable employment insurance for a decent standard of living.
6-We demand equal rights for men and women in all aspects of economic and social life, and we demand the abolition of all discriminatory laws.
7-We demand a decent pension plan for all pensioners and we condemn any practice of discrimination on the payment of these pensions.
8-We strongly support all the requests made by teachers, nurses and other white collar workers, and we consider their best in their struggle. We also demand the revocation of the death sentence of Farzad Kamangar. As
9-seasonal workers in construction are deprived of necessary social insurance rights, we support them in their fight to obtain humanitarian rights and a decent life.
10 - Capitalism is the driving force behind child labor. We demand that all children, regardless of gender, ethnicity and religion, can enjoy equal opportunities for hygiene, health and education.
11-We demand the liberation of all workers in prison, including Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi, and removal of all judgments rendered against them, putting an end to arrests and harassment of workers. 12-
hereby pronounce our support to all freedom loving movement and equity, as the student movement and the women's movement, and we strongly condemn the arrest and imprisonment of activists.
13-We are part of the international labor movement, and as such we condemn the looting and random double exploitation and harassment of Afghan workers and other migrants in Iran.
14-We are grateful for international support to working class and our struggle in Iran, and we are their allies and solidarity with the struggles against the hardships imposed by the capitalist system.
15-May 1st should be declared a public holiday in the Iranian calendar and no ban on the celebration of this day must be repealed and prohibited.
live May Day! (The journ & e 1 May)
Long live international solidarity of the working class!
May 1, 2009
The Commission "May First"
Workers of Tehran and Suburbs, Vahed Bus Company Union of plantation workers of Haft Tappeh Sugar
the Free Trade Union of Workers in Iran
Founding Committee of the Union of builders and decorators
Collaborative Council of Labour Organizations and Activists Coordinating Committee
workers 'organizations are'
Committee to continue to establishment of workers 'organizations free "
