Join the Global Action Day, March 6, 2008 - Solidarity with workers in Iran
WHO IS THIS MAN?
His name is Mansour Osanloo, leader of the Tehran Bus Workers' Union
and the focus of an international campaign that aims to get him
released from jail.
WHY IS HE IMPRISONED?
In October 2007 Osanloo was sentenced to five years in prison on
trumped up charges of endangering Iran’s national security and
criticising the regime. However, the real reason that he has been
targeted is as a member of a free trade union not controlled by the
government.
HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN IN JAIL?
Since the union was formed in June 2005, he has been arrested three
times and spent more time in the notorious Evin Prison than out.