Labor activist Parvin Mohammadi summoned to serve one-year prison sentence
The Free Union of Iranian Workers announced that Parvin Mohammadi, a member of the union's board of directors, has been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence.
Parvin Mohammadi is a well-known labor activist who has been arrested and imprisoned many times in recent years.
According to the announcement on the Telegram channel of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Branch 1 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office of District 33 of Tehran has issued a notification stating that Parvin Mohammadi must report to this branch "within five days" to serve her "one-year prison sentence."
On March 1, 2020, Ms. Mohammadi's lawyer announced that the verdict in this case was issued "in absentia." According to her, the case dates back to 2017, and Parvin Mohammadi was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of "propaganda against the regime" for several speeches she gave to retired workers and an interview about the fire at Plasco.
According to the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Ms. Mohammadi has been "banned from leaving" since last year.
The Free Union of Iranian Workers condemned the one-year prison sentence and the notification of the execution of this sentence for Parvin Mohammadi, calling it "a completely illegal action and an order from the security institutions to the judiciary," and said that "she has not been arrested, nor has a case been filed, nor has any interrogation or trial been held in connection with this sentence."
The union, questioning the judicial process of this case, has emphasized that "the reason and manner of issuing this verdict" according to the law "should have been recorded in the Sana system", but this did not happen, and accordingly, "Parvin Mohammadi has so far refused to introduce herself to Branch One of the Sentence Enforcement Department."
Coinciding with International Labor Day, and pointing out that "labor and the price of workers' wages" are worthless in the Islamic Republic, Parvin Mohammadi told the Persian service of the Voice of America that workers have had accumulated demands over the past 42 years, none of which they have achieved, and every day more serious demands are added to their previous demands.
Labor protests and strikes in Iran have continued despite the arrests and repression of labor activists in recent months and years.
In recent days, for example, rallies of steel retirees were held in the cities of Tehran, Ahvaz, and Isfahan to protest the failure to implement legal and livelihood demands, as well as the strike of workers at the Sungun Varzeghan copper complex in East Azerbaijan province.
Source: Voice of America
