
Dear Janek I am sure by now you know the good news. Mansour Osanloo was released from prison yesterday! It is almost four years from that abduction on 10 July. We were shocked and outraged. If you add the previous arrests, it is five years of imprisonment. And the only “crime” that he committed was [...]

As I celebrate the New Year peacefully with my family, two people that I met in my life are jailed with trumped-up charges. One is Mansour Osanloo, whom I spent ten days together in 2007. The other shall remain anonymous for security reasons. In 2010, I lost several friends and colleagues yet again. One was [...]

Dear friends, We send you our season’s greetings as many countries will be celebrating Christmas and the New Year. At the same time, we would also like to remind you that several times in the past, the Iranian authorities have attacked the independent workers organisations during this period. We have responded to such cowardly acts [...]