The Order of 6 Month Suspended Prison Sentence for a Labor Activist

Dastranj- April 16, 2008, 6:13 pm local time

News- The Court of Revolution sentenced one of the members of the Syndicate of Workers of Vahed Company to 6 months suspended prison.

As reported by Dastranj, Syndicate of Workers of Vahed Company informed that Gholamreza Gholamhoseini, a member of the Syndicate, was sentenced to 6 months suspended prison in charge of distributing the Syndicate’s leaflets by the Court of Revolution.

Gholamhoseini was informed about the order of his 6 month prison sentence, had been suspended for 5 years, in charge of propaganda against regime and acting against national security by the Court of Revolution, branch6, verbally on March 9, 2008 

He was arrested while he was distributing the Syndicate’s leaflets at the Sadeghieh Metro Station in Tehran on May 13, 2006 and was transferred to Tehran’s Security Police.

In reaction to his sentence, he told Dastranj, “I haven’t committed any crimes and I will appeal within 20 legal days.”

The Syndicate of Workers of Vahed Company, also, in reaction to this order, announced that the leaflet which was distributed by the member of the syndicate when he was arrested was about demanding Osanloo’ release and it didn’t include anything which could be referred as propaganda against the regime or acting against the national security.

Dr. Parviz Khorshid, Gholamhoseini’s attorney, also, said, “My client was carrying out a trade union activity while he was arrested, and charging him with propaganda against the regime is not acceptable.” He added, “Propaganda against the regime can be referred when the continues analytical articles in a negation of all the system as a whole were published by the accused person.” As Khorshid said, there was anything in the Syndicate’s leaflets which could be considered as propaganda against the regime.  He recalled that criticizing a system by addressing it directly in any printed materials could not be recognized as propaganda against the regime. By stating that he would appealed the sentence, he, also, criticized the procedure of the Court of Revolution in which all the cases were approached from the security angle.