Irán, República Islámica del - Additional prison sentences for persecuted union leaders

On 16 September Mahmoud Salehi, a founding member of the Bakery Workers’ Union in the city of Saqez (Kurdistan Province) who has been in and out of prison for the past 20 years, was sentenced to another nine years. He was out of prison on bail after being arrested on 28 April. He had lost a kidney during his previous imprisonment and it was feared that if he returned to prison he would die.
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh a member of the Committee to Pursue the Establishment of Workers’ Organisations, and a children’s rights advocate, was sentenced to another 7 years, 9 months and 15 days in addition to a previous sentences. Ebrahimzadeh had been in prison since June 2010 when he was sentenced to five years for “gathering and colluding with intent to harm state security”. He is also in very poor health.

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