IRAN WATCH CANADA

Wednesday, February 01, 2006



Wednesday Feb. 1,2006
News update- Gooya newsonline reporting from Iran:

More arrest , more unrest , protest are growing in Iran , regime suppression will bring more people to streets!

This morning the families of the detained public transit workers staged a protest in front of the parliament!

This morning at 9:00 am based on an agreement the families of the detained public transit workers in continuation to their protest to the detention of the public transit workers , staged a protest in front of the parliament in the " Baharestan " circle which ended with brutal assault of the police forces.
from the early morning it was clear that there were many security agent present in the area .The three wife who were arrested in the early attack to the houses of the workers were also present in the gathering. After several hours of protest the MP's did not even bother to come to listen to the protesters.But instead the security forces tried to disperse the protesters and as a result many were wounded or arrested . Around 11:00am the protesters announced that they won't quit their protest untill the freedom of all the detainees and announced that they will ask all the workers of the public transit not to come out of their home on Friday and furthermore they asked everyone to come together again on Saturday Feb. 4 at 10:00am in front of the court of Islamic revolution for protest. This time the families asked the other workers and students to join in their protest.The regime has already arrested more than 1000 worker and also using the tactics of hostage taking in order to arrest other syndicate leaders . For example; they took the cousine of Mr. Vahab Mohammadi as a hostage in order he will give himself up to the authority. So he agreed to give himself up tomorrow and probabely will end up in jail. Those who have been released are saying that the detainees are more than 1300-1400 workers.

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Translated by IRAN WATCH CANADA
Link to this news in Farsi:
http://1384.g00ya.com/politics/archives/043383.php

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