We Condemn the Violation of Rights and Detention of Gholamreza Gholamhoseini

While the authorities of the judiciary in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the head of the judiciary, are talking about the ruling laws, respecting civil rights, justice and human dignity and announcing that the judiciary system is ready to revive public civil rights on the occasion of the Judiciary Week , practically, unpleasant incidents have been taken place which emotionally affect everyone. Mr. Gholamreza Ghomalhoseini, a hard working driver and member of the Syndicate of the Workers of Vahed Company, who had received the definite order to be returned to the job by the legal institutions, has not been returned to his position because the management and the intelligence office at the Vahed Company refused to comply with the order.

Following the management refusal to meet him, Mr. Gholamhoseini went to the Azadi Stadium, where the National Women Day had been celebrating by Vahed Company and Mr. Ghalibaf was the speaker, to meet the manager of the Vahed Company at 8:00 pm on June 24, 2008. Unfortunately, in the coordinated action between the intelligence office at Vahed Company and Najafzadeh, officer of the Security Police, he was insulted and arrested and taken to the second base of the Security Police at Jalal Alahmad street  where he spent the night while he was beaten by the commanders of the night shift. He was ordered to be transferred to the solitary confinement in Evin prison by Judge Hadad in charge of “acting against security’ at 4:00 pm on June 25, 2008.

The Syndicate of the Workers of Tehran and Suburban Bus Company strongly condemns the ill treatment by the officers of the security police and the detention of Mr. Gholamreza Gholamhoseini, a hard working worker with 3 children and tenant in Ghalehasan khan [an area far from Tehran], and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.

The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburban Bus Company urges the country’s high level authorities, especially at the Ministry of Labor who claim that the labor organizations are free, as well as country and international trade unions, especially ITF and ITUC and the related committees at ILO, and all the organizations and individuals who are seeking democracy and justice, to launch a wide efforts for Mr. Gholamhoseini’s immediate and unconditional release.

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

June 26, 2008