Mahmoud Salehi

He is the former leader of bakery workers' union of Seqiz and a founding member of Coordination Committee to Form workers' associations in Iran. He was arrested and sentenced to prison for his labor activism.

<coverage-outsourcing id='9824'> Mahmoud Salehi was first arrested in 1980 and then in 1983 by the Revolutionary Guards, and was under temporary arrest in Mahabad prisons for a long time. According to Atlas, in 1984 and 1985 he was detained in Sardasht and Urmia prisons for several months. He was also arrested on June 5th of 1986 and was tried. He was kept in Seqiz prisons this time </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9792'> According to Atlas, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison by the first branch of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court for the charge of supporting Kumala </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9822'> He was arrested once again on the charge of Membership in Kumala and was released after being under temporary arrest for 75 days. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9823'> He was released after spending 10 months in Sanandaj and Seqiz prisons </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12976'> He was arrested and transferred to Seqiz Intelligence lockup one day after the International Labor day </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9800'> In 2004, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and three years of exile in the town of Gharveh by the first branch of Seqiz Revolutionary Court for the charge of "Acts against the country's domestic security through participation in riots and illegal gatherings on International Labor Day". According to Atlas, after his objection to this sentence, the verdict was reviewed by the seventh branch of Kurdistan province appeal court, and after the verdict was overturned, the case was returned to the first branch of Seqiz Revolutionary Court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9801'> After a series of procedures on his indictment, case number 965, classification 85/172/382/1 in the first branch of Seqiz Revolutionary court, he was sentenced to four years in prison. According to Atlas, after his repeated objection, the verdict was sent for appeal review to seventh branch of Kurdistan province appeal court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8499'> Labor activist and several civil right advocacy organizations, including the Iranian Writers Association, expressed concerns regarding Mahmoud Salehi's health. Also, Mohammad Sharif, his attorney announced that he was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the preliminary court. This sentence was reduced to 4 years by the appeal court. Three years of his four year sentence has been suspended and he has to spend one year in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9804'> According to Atlas, the branch 7 of Kurdistan province's appeal court by the means of indictment case 1817, suspended three years of the four-year prison term and sentenced him to one year in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9825'> He was arrested and transferred to Sanandaj Prison by agents in civilian clothing in order to enforce his one-year prison sentence. According to Atlas, six days before the end of his one-year sentence, he was summoned by the fourth branch of judicial investigation office of Sanandaj and was temporarily arrested on the charge of supporting Khatoon Abad workers and connections outside the prison. In protest to this verdict, he went on a hunger strike and after 13 days his arrest was changed to a 40 million toman bail and he was released from prison by the order of the first branch of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8500'> He was summoned to Sanandaj court. He was accused of sending messages out of prison and was issued an arrest warrant, while his prison sentence was still not finished </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8505'> He was arrested and transferred to Sanandaj Intelligence office during a raid of his house in Seqiz city by forces civilian clothing. His arrest took place while Tehran had issued his arrest warrant earlier </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8501'> It was reported that he was released after 33 days in arrest and being kept in a hospital in Sanandaj </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8506'> After four days of secret hospitalization in the Dialysis Ward of Sanandaj's Tohid Hospital under an alias, he was released from Sanandaj Intelligence lockup on bail (paycheck). It is said that Mahmoud Salehi was transferred to solitary cells while suffering from kidney failures, and he was not given his medicine while in solitary, therefore he suffered another kidney failure and had to be transferred to the hospital </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8503'> His case hearing was held in the first branch of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8504'> His second trial session was held by the first branch of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Saeedi over the charges of membership in "Coordination Committee to Help the Forming of Labor associations" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8502'> Mahmoud Salehi was informed of his 9 years prison sentence issued by the first branch of Sanandaj Revolutionary Court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19620'> In a letter to the special rapporteur of the UN, he wrote, “ in the same prison [the solitary cell in Saqez prison under the supervision of the Intelligence Ministry] I lost both my kidneys due to the prison authorities cutting my medication, I lost them and now, twice a week, meaning on saturdays and tuesdays, I receive hemodialysis at the Imam Khomeini hospital in Saqez” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9235'> Seqiz city Revolutionary Court acquitted his wife, Najibeh Salehzadeh from the charge of "propaganda against the regime" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12855'> According to Harana, the appeal court session was postponed due to the "absence of the province representative" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='13002'> Hi court session in the fourth branch of Kurdistan province appeal court was postponed due to the absence of prosecutor's representative </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19601'> He was arrested and sent to prison to begin his one year sentence of incarceration. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, security agents arrested him when he was leaving the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Saqez. He was given a sentence of one year incarceration and sent to Saqez prison. According to this report, the Appeals Court had reduced the initial sentence to one year incarceration. He, had, prior to this, in an initial hearing, been sentenced to 9 years incarceration for the charges of “propagating against the state” and “assembling a crowd of protesters”. It appears, that the charge of “assembling a crowd of protesters” is in connection to his activities in organizing workers organizations </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19714'> According to HRANA, he was transferred to hospital. He was returned to the prison after eight days </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20041'> He was released </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21763'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that the Revolutionary Court of Saqez acquitted Najibeh Saleh from the charge of "propaganda against the state" through interviews with foreign media, for the second time. This case was investigated in the first branch of the Revolutionary Court of Saqez under the chairmanship of Judge Jafar Rahimi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='30436'> <reference source='https://mafnews.de/news/%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%b6%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%b5%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%db%8c-%d9%88-%d8%b9%d8%ab%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%db%8c%d9%84%db%8c-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%a7/'> Osman Esmaili and Mahmoud Salehi, two labor activists from Saqqez, were summoned to a police station by telephone. They said they would go to the police station only if they received a written summons </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31259'> <reference source='https://mafnews.de/news/عثمان-اسماعیلی-و-محمود-صالحی-مورد-محاک/'> According to IPA, Osman Esmaili and Mahmoud Salehi were questioned at Branch 5 of the Saqqez Prosecutor's Office. The case was brought up by the security police. The interrogator told them that the case was brought up due to the "publication of the Komala logo on social media." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>