Labor activist Jovanmehr Moradi arrested in Kermanshah

Jovanmehr Moradi, a member of the board of directors of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, was arrested on Sunday, December 5 (14 Dey) by plainclothes security forces in the outskirts of Kermanshah.

According to the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Mr. Moradi was invited on Sunday after a personal phone call to visit and carry out a work project at a location in the outskirts of Kermanshah city, but after arriving at the location, security forces arrested him.

Security personnel searched the home of this labor activist after his arrest and took a number of his personal belongings with them.

As of the time this report was prepared, no information has been released about his place of detention and the charges against Mr. Moradi.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Iranian human rights activists, Mr. Moradi served a prison sentence as a political prisoner in Kermanshah prison in 1983 and 1984.

He was also arrested in 2006 on charges of holding International Workers’ Day ceremonies in Kermanshah and was subsequently acquitted.

Jovanmehr Moradi was arrested in 2008 on charges of holding International Workers’ Day ceremonies in Asalouyeh and spent forty-seven days in solitary confinement in Bushehr’s intelligence detention facility and Bushehr prison.

After this period, he was sentenced to six months of imprisonment which was later converted to a fine of two million tomans.

Currently, several other members of the board of directors of the Free Union of Iranian Workers are either imprisoned on security charges or have been summoned to the enforcement division to serve their judicial sentences.

Source: Radio Farda