While Iran is on the Persian Gulf, a show of strength with the United States and other Western States, before he goes inside against critics. Several activist were detained inside.
Esrin Darkale (in the article image in the middle with the pink towel) was on 28. July in Garmsar, a small town in the vicinity of Tehran arrested. Darkale woman activist is. “She called me a few hours later, from the Tehran’s Evin prison,” says Firouzeh Sharafedin, Darkales mother in an interview with DW. Her voice trembles: “Esrins place is in prison. Esrin is a single mother, she has just lost her Job. She wanted to go on Sunday to the Union office and your unemployment insurance care, when she was arrested”.
Esrin Darkale had worked for a construction company, which was due to the economic crisis, in difficulty, and many of the employees dismissed. Since the United States have set a year ago, its sanctions against Iran is back in force, has worsened Iran’s economic situation. Many companies have had to close. The number of unemployed is increasing, in Garmsar, about 80 kilometers Southeast of Tehran on the sidelines of the author Kawir, the largest desert of Iran. Many Iranians and immigrants from Afghanistan were drawn in search of work there than there are Jobs, there still is not sufficient, also Esrin Darkale.
Women’s rights activists in the crosshairs
She is a member of the Association “the voice of Iranian women” (see article photo), to belong to the woman activists from different Parts of the country. You have a channel on the in Iran, widely used Messenger services Facebook and Instagram and share on social networks. Your program is: “A better life for Iranian women”. On 8. In March, the international women’s day, they had gathered in Tehran and a lecture evening organised.
Trade unionists Bakhshi: Common with Sepideh Gholian because of the “conspiracy” condemned
Esrin Darkale had held a lecture with the title “women as the main force of the protests”. You had dedicated to the imprisoned activist Sepide Gholian. The student and activist for labor rights is due to the support of labour protests in the prison. The event will be from 8. March is also the “voice of the Iranian women now seems to be” fatal to become. Four members were arrested in the past few weeks.
In response to growing protests
“Women and men struggling in Iran for civil and political rights, are currently under enormous pressure,” confirms Raha Bahraini of Amnesty International. “The wave of arbitrary and unlawful arrests in Iran has increased greatly. The power to suffocate commander-in-chief to suppress dissenting voices and the growing protests against the economic situation and human rights violations in Iran through Repression.”
Arrested activists are often charged with alleged “threat to national security” or “Propaganda against the political System” in court. They are often sentenced to long prison terms. Finally, the student and trade Union activist Leila Husseinzadeh was, at 28. July behind bars. The Repression goes on in the prison. The 23-year-old Sepideh Gholian wrote in an open letter from prison.
Show trial and hunger strike
Sepideh Gholian had participated in the November 2018 labour protests in the southern of province of Chusestan and in social networks reported about it. Protesters workers, which had been paid for months, no wages, had been beaten by the security forces of the brutal.
The trade Union activist Ishmail Bakhshi was arrested along with Sepideh Gholian. In the state television was shown in January 2019, as Bakhshi and Gholian had to confess in a show trial plots with Marxist and Communist groups outside of Iran, to opponents of the government and attempt to overthrow the Islamic Republic. Amnesty-according to Reports, both are beaten and tortured. Sepideh Gholian is kicked out of Cheers, against their treatment in the hunger strike. Since the 23. July eats and not drink it.