Following Alborz Tire labors huge protests, regarding their deferred wages; more than 100 labors have been arrested. On Saturday, the labors have blocked Tehran – Islamshar road by firing up tiers. The labors have been attached by anti Revolt Police.
In regards to this arrests Dastranj website, has reported:”many of the Alborz Tire Factory labors are in Ahmadabad detention centre over 48 hours. Although, live witnesses have reported this number of arrests in Ahmadabd detention centre, their exact situation is unknown”. News sources have announced the number of arrests as 140.
Furthermore, 6 Fireman officers who denied pouring boiled water on Alborz Tire labors are arrested. They are charged with supporting Alborz Tire labors and denying pouring boiled water on them. These firemen are kept in detention centre.
The fireman officers denied pouring boiled water on Alborz Tire labors and instead they poured the boiled water on concrete.
Today, families of the arrested Alborz Tire labors, gathered in front of Ahmadabad Mostufi detention centre and complained against their family members’ arrest and the action taken by Disciplinary Officer authorities. They also wanted the prisoners to be released. In this regards Dastranj website wrote: “Families of the arrested labors of Alborz Tire firstly protested in front of Chardaneh Court and then in front of Ahmadabad detention centre. The gathering still continues and the families want labors to be released soon without any conditions.
What we have said here is only a brief listing of academic violations and denial of right to education in Iranian universities today. Students are determined to continue their legal and rightful struggle to promote independence of universities and uphold academic freedoms, although many are sacrificed down this path.
Iran is a state party to both the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (without reservation) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), both of which prohibit the execution of persons under the age of 18 at the time of their offense. In ratifying the CRC, Iran declared an extremely broad reservation, “not to apply any provisions or articles of the Convention that are incompatible with Islamic Laws.”
one must not forget that one aspect of “security” cases is the image that they carry for the groups that advance such issues. Therefore, before fake charges take to the news-media and become public, those who have had a hand in arresting the students must be weakened. Otherwise, after the severe charges are made public, repeated and are tied to the image of the actors, even the intervention of the head of the judiciary (as history demonstrates) cannot be of much help to the detainees.
How can we tell the judiciary officials of Iran that according to law juveniles can stay alive and continue to live with appropriate and suitable punishment? How must one make this request from the judiciary a public and wide-spread demand and point out that killing a juvenile who has not wholeheartedly committed an act does not solve any of the real problems facing the country?
Thousands of university students in an Iranian city have held a protest against the attempted sexual harassment of a female colleague by a top university official, the press reported on Monday. About 3,000 students at the university in the northwestern city of Zanjan staged the sit-in protest over the weekend at a sports hall on campus, the reports said.
