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Activists say Sugarcane Mill representative Esmail Bakhshi Tortured

December 1, 2018
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Labor activists in Iran say Esmaeel Bakhshi, the arrested Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Mill workers’ representative, is reportedly under torture in custody and was transferred to a hospital in recent days.

He is suffering from internal bleeding as a result of the torture and sustained injuries to his head and face, sources said.
Human rights activists reported that his face was bruised and swollen. There is no news on his current condition.

Bus drivers’ union in Tehran published a statement on Thursday saying Bakhshi “was hospitalized in a security clinic in Ahvaz”, the capital of Khuzestan, but he was later returned to the initial detention facility.

The statement adds that Bakhsi was subjected to “psychological abuse and physical attacks” in detention to force him to admit to false accusations.

The governor of Khuzestan province and the prosecutor in Shush have denied that the prisoner was tortured or hospitalized.

Esmail Bakhshi was arrested on November 18 in Shush during labor protests at local sugarcane mill, along with more than a dozen labor activists and workers. The others were later released.

In the recent days’ rallies held in the town of Shush in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan, the
Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Mill workers chanted, “Detained worker must be released,” calling for their colleague’s release.

In recent weeks, instead of responding to the demands of the workers, the Iranian regime’s security forces cracked down on the workers and arrested several of the protesters. On Thursday, security forces attacked the home of one of the members of the workers’ syndicate Ali Nejati and arrested him.
The agents did not carry an arrest warrant and when Ali Nejati, the former head of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Factory Trade Union asked to see their warrant, they mistreated and beat him and his family.

Ali Nejati and his son Peiman Nejati were then arrested. Reports indicate that Mr. Nejati suffers from a heart condition and was not well when arrested.

#IranProtests Nov 29, Shush
Security forces arrested Ali Nejati, a leading unionist from the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane Mill trade union as the workers' strike have entered its fourth consecutive week, with workers demanding overdue wages and a return of the mill to public ownership. pic.twitter.com/ArRptZb52F

— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) November 29, 2018

More recently, Iran’s Chief of Justice threatened workers to end their protests, calling their peaceful protests, “sedition.”

The labor unionist was previously detained and served a prison term for his peaceful union activities.

A labor strike at the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Mill in southeastern Iran has entered its fourth consecutive week, with workers demanding the overdue wages, the return of the company to a public ownership and the release of their representative, Esmaeil Bakhshi.

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