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67987
Sat, 06/27/2009 - 16:02
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RALLY DEMANDS RELEASE OF JAILED LABOR ACTIVISTS IN IRAN
Jakarta, June 27 (ANTARA) -A number of Indonesian transport workers staged a peaceful rally outside the Iranian embassy here Friday to demand an unconditional release of labor activists the Irian government has jailed.
The demonstration by members of Indonesian trade unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) was part of a simultaneous world-wide campaign in solidarity with the imprisoned Iranian labor activists.
Hanafi Rustandi, chairman of the ITF's Asia Pacific Region, said in a press statement on Saturday, the recent riots in Tehran were an explosion of accumulated discontent of the people including labor about years of repression.
About two million workers in Iran had been denied their salaries for two years. "They protested but the authorities responded by arresting and imprisoning labor activists," he said.
Among the labor leaders still in jail until now were Mansour Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi, as well as a number of teachers' association figures and trade unionists, he said.
Friday's demonstrators outside the Iranian embassy in Jakarta represented such transport workers unions as the Indonesian Sailors Union (KPI), Garuda Indonesia Cabin Crews Union (Ikagi), Railway Workers' Union (SPKA), Jakarta International Container Terminal Workers Union, Koja Container Terminal Workers Union.
Similar solidarity actions were also held simultaneously in other countries by workers organizations affiliated to ITF and other world workers' groups such as ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation), IE (Education International) and International Union of Food-Agricultural-Hotel-Restaurant-Catering-Tobacco and Allied Workers Association (IUF/UITA/IUL).
The demonstration by members of Indonesian trade unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) was part of a simultaneous world-wide campaign in solidarity with the imprisoned Iranian labor activists.
Hanafi Rustandi, chairman of the ITF's Asia Pacific Region, said in a press statement on Saturday, the recent riots in Tehran were an explosion of accumulated discontent of the people including labor about years of repression.
About two million workers in Iran had been denied their salaries for two years. "They protested but the authorities responded by arresting and imprisoning labor activists," he said.
Among the labor leaders still in jail until now were Mansour Osanloo and Ebrahim Madadi, as well as a number of teachers' association figures and trade unionists, he said.
Friday's demonstrators outside the Iranian embassy in Jakarta represented such transport workers unions as the Indonesian Sailors Union (KPI), Garuda Indonesia Cabin Crews Union (Ikagi), Railway Workers' Union (SPKA), Jakarta International Container Terminal Workers Union, Koja Container Terminal Workers Union.
Similar solidarity actions were also held simultaneously in other countries by workers organizations affiliated to ITF and other world workers' groups such as ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation), IE (Education International) and International Union of Food-Agricultural-Hotel-Restaurant-Catering-Tobacco and Allied Workers Association (IUF/UITA/IUL).
