Workers welcomed Iran’s decision on Tuesday to release a prominent bus drivers’ organiser from jail and called on the country to release all trade unionists.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said in a statement that Ebrahim Madadi, a board member of Tehran bus drivers’ union the Vahed Syndicate, had been unjustly held on false charges of endangering national security since being arrested and then rearrested in 2007 and 2008.
“He is free because trade unionists worldwide have been demanding justice,” ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow said.
“It is also a result of pressure through the International Labour Organisation, which has been critical of Iran for not living up to the international obligations they have signed onto.”
ITF general secretary David Cockroft added: “The day all of those unjustly imprisoned in Iran are set free is the day we will be able to truly celebrate.”
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