Date:
A judge in town of
1-
Mahmoud Salehi, a well known
independent workers’ right activist, was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and
3 years in exile.
2-
Jalal Hosseini was sentenced to 3
years imprisonment.
3-
Mohsen Hakimi was sentenced to 2
years imprisonment.
4-
Mohammad Abdipoor was sentenced to
2 years imprisonment.
5-
Borhan Divargar was sentenced to 2
years imprisonment.
6-
Hadi Tanomand was acquitted.
7-
Esmail Khodkam was acquitted.
Mr Salehi and Mr Hakimi had met an International
Confederation Free Trade Union (ICFTU)’s Mission that visited Iran officially
in April 2004 and had told them that working class in Iran have been denied of
their internationally recognised rights.
His arrest with 6 others activists in 1st of May
2004 proved that he was right.
We strongly believe that participating at May Day rally is
an initial right and forcefully condemn the sentencing of working class’s
activists.
We along with International worker’s organisations and
human rights groups do our best to make sure that the Iranian government, at
the later stage of judicial process, clear the above-mentioned activists.
A group of left student at Queen Mary University of London
Written by Sediq Esmaili
(Sediq_e@yahoo.co.uk)