Irán, República Islámica del - Unionists sentenced (2011)

On 17 April Pejman Rahimi, a union activist who had supported the Haft Tapeh union, was sentenced to one year imprisonment and 40 lashes of whip for “disrupting public order”. On 1 May Mohammad Olyaiefard, a lawyer for the Haft Tapeh and Tehran Bus Workers’ Union, was arrested. He remained in detention by the end of the year. On 11 May, Abolfazl Abedini Nasr, a journalist and a labour rights activist, was sentenced to 11 years of peremptory confinement.

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