Campaign to release Borhan Dyvargar and other worker activists in Iranian Kurdistan

Safety of Borhan Dyvargar now causing grave concern. Please act now!

We have recently received the following communications via the Worker Communist Party of Iran- Hekmatist

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Borhan Dyvargar and all the recently arrested people have to be released immediately!
To: All Unions, worker organizations, progressive and human rights organizations.

Based on the recived information, Borhan Dyvangar a well known activist in the worker movement has been arrested by the Islamic republic of Iran’s intelligence police on Sunday 7.Aug. 2005 in the city of Saqz. His imprisonment is the follow-up of the recent one thousand individual arrests from the province of Kurdistan.

Borhan a member of the investigation committee for establishing worker organizations and one of the founders of the general organization for the unemployed and also the director of the Association of Defending Children’s Rights in the city of Saqz. Borhan is also the administrator for the website www.tashakol.com. Furthermore, he was one of the speakers at the May Day celebration in the cities of Tehran and Saqz in 2004 and 2005. Borhan was once before arrested along with 6 other organizers during the May Day celebration in 2004. The authorities of the Islamic republic of Iran were unable to prove the unfounded accusations in their 'courts of justice'.

On the day of the general strike in Kurdistan, once again the Islamic republic’s forces invaded Borhan’s residence and in addition to terrifying Borhan’s family they also arrested him and confiscated his computer and his personal belonging.

On the morning of the same day he was taken to court for a hearing of the accusations against him. The Islamic republic authorities stated that Borhan has been arrested for being a member of the investigation committee of free worker organizations; also, establishing the organization for the unemployed workers, and administrating a website for the workers. In addition he was accused of spreading propaganda, encouraging people to participate in a general strike in Kurdestan. Anyone will agree that the accusations declare against Borhan by the Islamic regime is the basic and fundamental rights of any citizen within any society; but Islamic republic has prohibited these rights for all the people in Iran. In this way, the accusations proclaimed against Borhan Dyvangar are groundless. Furthermore, Borhan's life is in imminent danger. Therefore, this is a call of support to every union, worker organizations, and progressive left organizations and individuals, to pressure the Islamic Republic of Iran in their unique ways for releasing Borhan Dyvangar and all the arrested people from the recent events. I hope you will take urgent actions as a part of your immediate agenda.

With regards,
Rahman Hosain Zadeh
Assistance Director of the Worker Communist Party of Iran- Hekmatist

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I am requesting for the immediate release of my husband, Borhan Dyvargar

To Guy Rider, the respectful director of the Free Workers Union
To Amnesty International
To all Workers Unions and all the Human Rights Organizations

In this way I am announcing that my husband, Borhan Dyvargar, has been arrested by Islamic republic of Iran’s intelligent forces, without any legal permission, at 2:00am on Sunday night, the 7th of August. Furthermore, Borhan was taken to the court on the same day. Since then I have no information concerning him. Borhan is a prominent member of the Bakers syndicate whom was arrested along with 6 other organizers on may 2004 for organizing the May Day workers celebration on the International Workers Day. The hearing for Borhan and the other 6 organizers of the International Workers Day has been on ongoing bases for a year and a half and is still continuing. The Intelligence forces did not wait for the court verdict from the previous arrest and in the middle of the night they invaded in to our residence and detained him once again. Borhan is one of the activists of the investigation committee for establishing worker organizations and one of the founders of the organization for the unemployed workers; also he is the secretary of the Society in Defense of Children’s Rights in the city of Saqz.

In the past few days I have asked the authorities of Islamic republic to visit my husband but I have not received any reply to my request. I am three weeks away from going into labor; the Islamic republic’s forces invaded my residence late at night and in front of me and my child’s fearful eyes apprehended my husband. This was not enough for the Islamic forces; in addition to his arrest, they confiscated my husband’s computer, floppy disks and all his documents of the Association for Defending Children’s Rights.

Borhan’s “crimes” are defending his own right as a worker, defending humanity, defending children and struggle against oppression of children. Arresting and imprisonment of Borhan is against the law, and also against human rights and I strongly condemn this act. Also the Islamic republic’s authorities are responsible for Borhan’s life and any damage from this shock that has been put on my child and injuries that my fetus and I have received from this shock. Now I request help from you and those who hear my voice to save my husband’s life and support my children and myself.

With regards,
Maryam Axzarpour
09. Aug. 2005

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