Continued detention of Mansour Ossanlu, Chairman of the union at Sherkate Vahed

Stockholm3 / 2 / 06

Mr Mahmoud Ahmadjinejad
President of the Republic
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran

and

His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Minister of Justice
Park-e Shahr
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran

His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Minister of Justice
Park-e Shahr
Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran

Hojatoleslam Mustafa Purmohammadi
Ministry of the Interior
Dr Fatemi Avenue
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran


Your Excellency,

Re: Continued detention of Mansour Ossanlu, Chairman of the union at Sherkate Vahed

As a member of a Swedish trade union, I am very concerned at the continued detention of Mansour Ossanlu, Chairman of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company.

While I welcome the fact that all other trade unionists who were arrested in late December 2005 and early January 2006 have been released, I am protesting against the detention of Mansour Ossanlu in the high-security area of Evin Prison and also against that he has not been granted a lawyer.

I urge you to issue instructions to immediately release Mansour Ossanlu and to drop all charges against him. Furthermore I urge you to ensure that all undue pressure exerted on independent trade unionists and their organisations is ceased immediately.

Yours faithfully,

The union for the buss drivers in Sweden
Trafiksektionen
Kommunal Stockholms Län
Barnängsgatan 1
S-116 41 Stockholm
Sweden
The Chairman +46704844326
The Secretary +46702556240