Workers’ news round up
IRAN On 9 April 2007, Iranian security forces detained Mahmoud Salehi, under the pretext that he must liaise with prosecutors over arrangements for a May Day demonstration. Salehi, the former President of the Bakery Workers’ Association of the City of Saqez and a well-known labour activist in Iran, was told that he had been sentenced to one year imprisonment and a three year suspended prison sentence for organising for May Day 2004. After objecting to the illegal manner of his detention, Salehi was taken immediately to the Sanandaj Central Prison, not even allowed to contact his family, lawyer...