Today is the ITF’s global day of action in support of Mansour Osanloo, leader of the Tehran bus drivers’ union, who is currently being held in Evin Prison, because of his union related activities.

In fact, he’s spent more time in Evin than out in the last few years, and friends and colleagues are seriously worried about his health. He has twice been let out for urgent surgery, but then not allowed to recuperate properly in hospital and sent straight back into prison.

Please take just a few minutes to go to www.freeosanloo.org now and send an e-action calling for his release. Under the banner of the ITF, people all over the world are getting active today, in solidarity with a very brave man who is being crushed for attempting to exercise basic freedoms that the rest of us take for granted.

Osanloo is not the only member of an Iranian free trade union in prison for being a unionist, and any pressure today can only help the cases of Mahmoud Salehi and their union colleagues.

(helpful reference for those not as wrinkly as me…)

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