{"id":12725,"date":"2018-11-19T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=12725"},"modified":"2018-11-19T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T22:41:44","slug":"iran-angry-workers-of-haft-tappeh-demand-release-of-co-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/12725\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Angry Workers of Haft Tappeh Demand Release of Co-Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the workers of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane continued their third week of strike and\u00a0protest rally<\/a>\u00a0in the city of Shush on Monday, November 19, they\u00a0 chanted anti-government slogans and demanded release of their co-workers.<\/p>\n

The protesters marched toward the city proper and gathered in front of the mayor\u2019s office demanding release of their colleagues and representatives who were arrested by the Iranian regime\u2019s security forces following\u00a0yesterday\u2019s protest<\/a>\u00a0rally.\u00a0 (Watch a Video of the\u00a0Yesterday\u2019s Protest<\/a>\u00a0Here). This is the 15th day of the strike and protests by the workers who have not received their salary for 4 months.<\/p>\n

\"\"On Sunday, at the end of the day\u2019s protests, the security forces of the Iranian regime arrested the representatives of the protesting workers along with a number of other workers and transferred them to the security police headquarters detention.<\/p>\n

In an act of defiance to the regime\u2019s attempt at intimidation and threats, the angry protesters chanted: \u201cNeither threats nor prison no longer has any effect.\u201d They also chanted: \u201cImprisoned workers must be freed!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian opposition (the NCRI),\u00a0saluted the striking workers<\/a>\u00a0and called on all youth, especially in Khuzestan, to support the workers of Haft Tappeh and Ahvaz Steel factories.<\/p>\n

She urged all human rights lawyers and organizations to take immediate action<\/a> to release the arrested people and condemn the repressive measures of the Iranian regime against the workers.<\/p>\n

Watch Videos of the Workers Protests Rally Here<\/a> & Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the workers of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane continued their third week of strike and\u00a0protest rally\u00a0in the city of Shush on Monday, November 19, they\u00a0 chanted […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,5],"tags":[530,388,127,526,373],"class_list":["post-12725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-protests-news","category-news","tag-iran-nationwide-strike","tag-iran-protests","tag-iran-regime-change","tag-iran-strike","tag-iran-uprising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12725"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12737,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions\/12737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}