Wednesday, 2 January 2008

Prominent Labour Activist Mahmoud Salehi’s Life is at Risk!

Mahmoud Salehi, a well-known labour activist and a representative of bakery workers of Saqez, who was arrested during a May Day demonstration in 2004, has been imprisoned since April 2007 in Sandandaj’s central prison. Mahmoud has been detained while he suffers from serious kidney disease. His health is being deteriorated drastically on daily basis. One of his kidneys has stopped working and the other one requires continuous and essential care and dialysis treatment by specialist physicians.
Mahmoud Salehi’s life is at risk and the Islamic Republic regime is directly responsible for his well-being and life. It is absolutely necessary to exert pressures on the Islamic Republic regime for the freedom of Mahmoud Salehi and his proper treatment by specialist physicians. All international labour and human rights organizations are urged to take urgent action by :
pressurizing the Islamic Republic for immediate release and treatment of Mahmoud Salehi.
Demand the Islamic Republic government to release Salehi for urgent medical treatment by qualified specialist physicians.
Furthermore, call for a medical mission to be dispatched to Iran by concerned international organizations to visit Salehi for medical examination and in order to pressurize the Islamic Republic for his immediate medical treatment.
For more http://amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=386

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