RAHANA Labor Rights – According to a statement released by the IUF, while 4 convicted leaders of the independent Haft Tapeh sugarworkers union in Iran have now been freed, President Ali Nejati remains in prison, where he could spend two years or more on charges of ‘endangering national security’. Union Communications Officer Reza Rakhshan is still awaiting final sentencing for his conviction last year on similar charges.
Nejati is currently serving a one-year sentence and faces an additional term of one year or more.
Gorban Alipour and Mohammad Heidari have been released after completing all or part of their sentences; Jalil Ahmadi and Feraydoon Nikfar have been released conditionally on probation after partially serving their sentences.
Nothing has changed at Haft Tapeh, where workers have had to resort to spontaneous industrial action on several occasions since the union leaders were imprisoned in order to obtain payment of their wages.

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