[PAA-Discuss] Fw: Free Habibollah Latifi!---- Reza Shahabi sends a New Year message of thanks from his prison ward

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From: Info at workers-iran.org <info at workers-iran.org>
Subject: Free Habibollah Latifi!----  Reza Shahabi sends a New Year message of thanks from his prison ward
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Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 10:21 PM

Free
Habibullah Latifi! Help us to stop the Iranian state murdering
Habibollah Latifi! Please add your name

            

            Reza
Shahabi sends a New Year message of thanks from his prison ward

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http://anticuts.com/2010/12/28/free-habibollah-latifi-solidarity-with-students-in-iran/ 

This statement has been sponsored by the NCAFC and the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, an international campaign to support workers, students and resistance activists in Iran.
Please add your name by emailing againstfeesandcuts at gmail.com

We the undersigned call for the release of, and dropping of all 
charges against, Iranian student Habibollah Latifi. This is urgent: 
Latifi’s execution was scheduled for 26 December 2010; it was postponed 
after international protests and after 300 supporters protesting outside
 the prison gates, but could be rescheduled at any time.
Latifi, who was a law student at Azad University in the south western
 province of Ilam, in Western Iran, was arrested in October 2007 and 
sentenced to death in July 2008 after being convicted of moharebeh 
(‘enmity against God’), a vaguely defined ‘crime’ for which the penalty 
is death. This was in connection with alleged activities on behalf of a 
Kurdish liberation group (Latifi is from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish 
minority; according to Amnesty International, sixteen Kurdish men and 
two women are on death row in Iran in connection with alleged 
‘separatist’ activities).
On 26 December, members of his family including his father and sister were also arrested.
We call on the Iranian authorities to drop all charges against 
Habibollah Latifi and release him and his family. We will continue to 
make solidarity with Iranian student activists, who alongside workers 
have been at the forefront of the struggle for human rights and 
democracy in Iran.
Initial signatories:

Patrick Murphy, National Union of Teachers National Executive member and Leeds NUT Secretary

Olivia Bailey, National Union of Students Women’s Officer

Barnaby Raine, School and FE Students Against the Cuts

Sean Rillo Raczka, National Union of Students National Executive Committee and Birkbeck Students’ Union Chair

Alan Bailey, NUS Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Officer (Open Place)

Vicki Baars, NUS LGBT Officer (Women’s Place)

Claire Locke, London Metropolitan University SU Communications and Campaigns Officer

Louis Hartnoll, University of the Arts London SU President

Robyn Minogue, University of the Arts SU Education Officer

Wanda Canton, Queen Mary SU Women’s Officer

Katherine McMahon, Edinburgh University anti-cuts activist

Michael Chessum, NCAFC co-founder and UCL Union Education and Campaigns Officer

Daniel Lemberger Cooper, Royal Holloway Anti-Cuts Alliance and Save our services in Surrey

Bob Sutton, Merseyside Network Against Fees and Cuts

Tali Janner-Klausner, London NCAFC activist

Rowan Rheingans, Newcastle University anti-cuts activist

Jade Baker, University of Westminster SU Vice-President Education

Chris Marks, Hull University occupier
Help us to stop the Iranian state murdering Habibollah Latifi! Please add your name by emailing againstfeesandcuts at gmail.com

We call on NUS and other student networks like the Education Activist 
Network to support the campaign and promote this statement.________________________________________________________________________________________________________


            Reza
Shahabi sends a New Year message of thanks from his prison ward



Reza Shahabi the imprisoned worker
in Ward 209 of Evin Prison, who has been incarcerated for nearly seven months
now, only because of his advocacy for independent workers organizations in
Iran, has issued a New Year's message of thanks from his prison ward:

 

To workers and workers'
Organizations throughout the world!

 

On the occasion of the coming New
Year, year 2011, I would like to extend my congratulations to all my beloved
co-workers and fellow-workers throughout the world.

 

While me and my fellow workers have
been incarcerated due to our advocacy of workers' rights in Iran, and because
of our demands for creation of independent workers' organizations in Iran, many
workers' organizations throughout the world have rallied in our support, and
have condemned the treatment we have received in jail.

 

Also, while I was on my hunger strike,
I received a multitude of support from workers and their organizations throughout
the world. I would like to acknowledge and thank all of you for your messages
of solidarity.

 

Hopefully through our solidarity we
shall be able to overcome all obstacles in achieving our goals of justice,
freedom and equality, and through our daily efforts transcend Capitalism and
achieve what rightly belongs to us.

 

I wish for a day when all of us
will be able to live a decent and humane life, without any wars or violence. 

 

In the end I wish all of you a
happy New Near, full of success, health and unity. I warmly shake all your
hands

 

Reza Shahabi 

Incarcerated Worker

Ward 209, Evin Prison, Tehran

December 26, 2010 

5th of Day, 1389 

 

 

Translated by IASWI,

info at workers-iran.org 


International
Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI)

info at workers-iran.org

www.etehadbinalmelali.com



www.workers-iran.org



The
 historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a 
succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, 
in society, in man himself. 

Leon Trotsky










      
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