Bakhshi and Gholian jailed again
On Sunday 20 January, a large number of armed men in descended on Esmail Bakhshi’s home and detained him. Bakhshi is a representative of the Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers, in southwest Iran, who have recently been in dispute over unpaid wages and control of the sugarcane complex. Also on 20 January Sepideh Gholian, a journalist and social activist jailed with the workers on 18 November and released on bail on 18 December, was rearrested.