SEVEN more members of the Iranian Socialist Workers Party (HKS) have been Ahwaz in the Arab province of They were seized outside the main oilworks last Saturday leafleting workers' signatures on a previous arrest of nine HKS members.
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Lajevardi, Firooz Farzinpour, Kafaie, Hojabr Khosravi, Ali Hashemi, and Kia Mahdevi. won't admit that it is holding them, and hasn't presented any charges Like the previous nine they could well face execution the defence Telegrams and appeals are urgently needed, and should be sent to: Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister, Tehran, Iran; Revolutionary Council, send copies to Socialist Challenge.
The article below shows why the Iranian Trotskyists have.
Khomeini regime's crackdown — and why they must be defended.
FOR MONTHS before the arrests of nine Socialist Workers members in Ahwaz, the arrested In Khuzestan.
and collecting petition against the Adib, Kambiz April, Mahmoud So far the local Imam Committee They THUS vigorous campaign waged.
and to the Islamic Tehran, Iran. Please Party [HKS] Trotskyists in this southern oil centre had suffered systematic harassment by pro-capitalist forces, including former SAVAK agents, in the local 'Imam' Committee.
In an interview I conducted with Hamid Shahrabi, one of those recently arrested, and other Ahwaz HKS members in Tehran in early Shahrabi said: 'Our constantly being arrested while are taken to the Imam Committee, given the third degree, and threatened.' The rightists also organised gangster-style attacks. Ali, another HKS member in Ahwaz, described an incident that happened in early March when HKS members were selling their newspaper in front of the oil refinery:
"First a man came by in a car and tried to provoke us. Then a group came in a minibus and attacked us with knives, axes, knuckles. They tried to turn over our car, and they threw our papers in the gutter.
Fatima Fallabi, a woman HKS member, a who is also among those arrested, man in the car called the women When they take us to the Imam Committee, they tell us that it's not decent for women to sell newspapers. But even though there are a lot of backward attitudes about women in Iran, activists at the committee defend our right to selling our times a day.
sell.' and brass said: "The "whores""
developing democratic "Fatima HAMID SHAHRABI Ali described a similar response at the oil company gate: 'People there we didn't know at all defended us. We found out later that the workers there took our papers out of the gutter and read them. It's very important for us to continue to work openly. Everywhere groups that want assert rights. They look to us example, and that includes groups of soldiers.' is famous in the committees, Shahrabi said, 'for going there and explaining group of pressure.
our programient particular, of Arab rights.
defend their rights.
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