{"id":2695,"date":"2022-04-18T06:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2022-04-18T06:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T05:27:58","slug":"ituc-calls-for-the-release-of-trade-union-activists-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codir.net\/?p=2695","title":{"rendered":"ITUC\u00a0Calls for the Release of Trade Union Activists in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>International Confederation of Trade Unions (ITUC) writes to ILO to raise the plight of Civil and Trade Union Activists imprisoned in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by the Iranian news website Akhbar-Rooz, the General Secretary of the \u200eInternational Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on the International Labour \u200eOrganization (ILO) to intervene and ask the Iranian government for the immediate and \u200eunconditional release of Ms. Haleh Safarzadeh and Mr. Alireza Saghafi, whose labour \u200erights have been violated.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Akhbar-Rooz, the ITUC petition states that Ms. Safarzadeh and Mr. Saghafi \u200ewere tried at the revolutionary court of Karaj on 25 July 2019 on the false charge \u200eof propaganda against the Iranian regime and sentenced to one year imprisonment.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haleh Safarzadeh, Alireza Saghafi, and others were arrested at a private gathering at Mr. \u200eSaghafi&#8217;s workplace. Although other activists were released on the same day, Haleh \u200eSafarzadeh and Alireza Saghafi remain in one of Iran&#8217;s most brutal prisons (Kachuei), \u200ewhere prisoners are being held for serious criminal offenses.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ITUC notes that the Committee for the Freedom of Associations and the \u200eCommittee on the Application of Standards have repeatedly drawn the attention of the \u200eIranian regime to its failure to respect the basic rights and core conventions of the \u200eInternational Labour Organization (ILO).\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Confederation has requested the immediate intervention of the International Labor \u200eOrganization and has called on the Iranian government to immediately and \u200eunconditionally release Haleh Safarzadeh and Alireza Saghafi, return any and all of their \u200econfiscated belongings, and drop all charges against them, and stop any further arrests, \u200eharassment, or intimidation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share-this\">\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\"\nclass=\"twitter-share-button\"\ndata-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a>\n                    <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\n                    <div class=\"facebook-share-button\">\n                        <iframe\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fcodir.net%2F%3Fp%3D2695&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=200&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21\"\nscrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\noverflow:hidden; width:200px; height:21px;\"\nallowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Confederation of Trade Unions (ITUC) writes to ILO to raise the plight of Civil and Trade Union Activists imprisoned in Iran As reported by the Iranian news website Akhbar-Rooz, the General Secretary of the \u200eInternational Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-labour-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codir.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}