On November 19, 2004 at the Palm Island police station Senior-Sergeant Chris Hurley struck Aboriginal prisoner Mulrunji with such force that it caused the Aboriginal man to die. The Palm Island Aboriginal community responded to years of racist state violence and the death in police custody of Mulrunji with a […]
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Reza Shahabi is a founding member and treasurer of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, an independent trade union that has been targeted repeatedly by the Iranian government. He was arrested in 2010 and sentenced to six years in prison on charges of “collusion against national […]
In 2009 thousands of workers at the Ssangyong Motor Company production factory took action to stop mass lay offs. The workers occupied part of the factory and held out for over 2 months against repeated assaults by the police and military. Many workers were jailed afterwards. Mr Han Sang Kyun, […]
Li Wangyang, a Chinese trade union activist, died earlier this month in suspicious circumstances at a hospital in Hunan. Li Wangyang spent 22 years in prison for his part in organising workers during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Mr Li had been released from jail last May due to […]
Trade unionist and political prisoner Liliany Obando was released on Thursday 1 March 2012 from the prison where she had been held for almost 4 years on charges of “rebellion”. Liliany was arrested in 2008 while serving as the Human Rights Coordinator for FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s largest organization of peasant farmers […]
As reported previously, the campaign to free the six labour activists from Faisalabad, who were jailed under the Pakistan Terrorist Act has generated a lot of solidarity within Pakistan. These actions are continuing with an international solidarity campaign started calling for their immediate release.
As previously reported, power loom workers in the Faisalabad district of Pakistan in mid 2010 went on a series of major strikes and demonstrations. Four of their leaders, Fazal Elahi, Rana Riaz, Babar Randhawa and Akbar Kamboh, plus two others, were arrested by the police. Once in detention, they were […]
Mansour Osanloo, the Iranian bus union leader, was set free on 2 June 2011 after almost fours years of imprisonment in jail in Iran. Osanloo is the president and one of the founding members of the International Transport Workers’ Federation affiliated Vahed Syndicate, a free trade union representing Tehran’s bus […]
Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, a long time union and democracy activist in Thailand, has been in prison since 30 April 2011 and faces a further ten years jail under the repressive Article 112 – the Lèse Majesté law. For more than 20 years, Somyot has been a key labour activist in Thailand […]
Garment workers’ leader Moshrefa Mishu has been released by the Bangladeshi government, 31 days after she was granted bail More on her release here Comrade Moshrefa was supported by an international campaign demanding her release Meanwhile in ITF reports on another union leader in prison, Mansour Osanloo’s condition has worsened. […]