Seventh day of strike in Haft Tapeh | Protesters demand release of imprisoned workers and return of laid-off workers
Haft Tapeh sugarcane workers gathered in front of the company's management door on Sunday, October 27, on the seventh day of their strike.
The strike of Haft Tapeh workers has entered its seventh day today, Sunday, as these workers demand the cancellation of privatization, the release of imprisoned workers, the cancellation of the sentences issued against arrested workers Esmail Bakhshi and Mohammad Khanifar, and the return to work of 21 dismissed workers of the company.
The heavy sentences of 14 years in prison for Ismail Bakhshi and 6 years in prison for Mohammad Khanifar, workers of Haft Tappeh, have so far drawn much criticism.
The new round of Haft Tappeh workers' protests began on October 1. Previously, the Haft Tappeh Workers' Union reported that some protesting workers had been threatened with "deductions in salaries, inclusion of warnings in their files, reduction of the duration of workers' employment contracts, and summoning workers to the security police."
However, these protests by Haft Tapeh workers are still ongoing.
Haft Tappeh workers' protests began on a large scale in 2018, but were met with a security and judicial crackdown by the government. Ismail Bakhshi, a representative of Haft Tappeh workers, was among the workers who, after being arrested, announced that he had been tortured and was arrested for the second time in February of last year.
The United States has repeatedly condemned Iran's security crackdown on workers. The US State Department also said in a message that the Islamic Republic's regime could have paid the salaries of workers in Iran with the money it spent in Syria.
Source: Voice of America
