Mansour Osanloo Was Transferred to the Health Base at the Evin Prison

Today, June 18, 2008, Mansour Osanloo, the president of the Executive Board of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburban Bus Vahed Company, had been transferred from Evin Prison to Labafinejad Hospital for his eye surgery on May 26, 2008, was transferred from the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of Labafinejad hospital to the health base at Evin prison.

Regarding the governmental report, published by ISNA, Iran Students News Agency, and Dastranj, about the detention of Mansour Osanloo and national and international support from him, it should be informed that:

Same as every year, the members of Iran delegation to the Annual International Labor Organization Conference falsely reported, was published by ISNA and Dastranj, that the representatives of Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon at the ILO conference didn’t support the protest statement in which the freedom of Mansour Osanloo was requested, and it was signed by the majority of the countries’ representatives. However, the representatives of Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon in ILO said that they, along with the representatives from Palestine, Bahrain and Tunisia, supported Osanloo. More over, they were wearing the badges of free Osanloo with his photo, as well as they had expressed their support from Osanloo in this conference.

ILO in its 59-  page report, published recently, obliged the Islamic Republic of Iran to investigate regarding several complaints in last couple of years, as well as respect the workers’ right to organize, return the dismissed workers and drop all the charges against workers in Iran.

We hope that authorities in Iran, as a member of the International Labor Organization, comply with the ILO’s Conventions. More over, we hope that Mansour Osanloo, the president of the Executive Board of the Syndicate, will get free, and the dismissed members of the Syndicate, the other labor activists as well as all the workers who have been dismissed because of their defense of workers’ trade union’s rights will be returned to their jobs soon.

The Syndicate of the Workers of the Tehran and Suburban Bus Vahed Company

June 18, 2008