Workers activists in Iran are punished by prison and whip Iran's Islamic terror regime is anti-women

Workers activists in Iran are punished by prison and whip Iran's Islamic terror regime is anti-women

A Tehran court has sentenced worker activist, Atefeh Rangriz, to 11.5 years in prison and 74 whips. She was prosecuted for participating in a peaceful May First demonstration last year.



Atefeh Rangriz is currently in custody in Qarchak Prison in the city of Varamin and charged on August 5.
Atefeh is one of 36 activists arrested by the regime in connection with a peaceful May demonstration outside the regime's parliament in Tehran. The regime's repressive security forces and agents from the intelligence service went on a brutal attack on the demonstration and arrested several activists.
The regime released some of the detained activists, but several others received harsh punishments. One of those punished was the journalist and student Marzieh Amiri who was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison and 148 whips.
In recent months, the Iranian regime has handed out harsh and cruel punishment to worker activists in an attempt to stave off workers' protests.
Bus driver Rasoul Taleb Moghadam, a retired worker, Nasrin Javadi and Parvin Mohammadi, vice president of the trade union, "Free Union of Iranian Workers", are some labor activists who were sentenced to prison sentences and whip rap for participating in May protests.
More than 80 trade unions around the world have protested against these arrests that took place in connection with the celebration of International Labor Day. They have also criticized the harsh punishment against labor activists. Trade unions and MRI organizations have called on the international community to act to secure the release of detained workers,
At the same time, the regime sentenced women's rights activist Saba Kord Afshari to 24 years in prison. She was accused of protesting against the regime's mandatory dress code and refusing to make a false confession.