Asghar Mohammadi

Asghar Mohammadi is an attorney at law and a member of the human rights commission of the bar association of East Azerbaijan province.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='49727'> According to IPA sources, in recent days after the four-day workers' strike at the Sungun Varzaghan copper mine, the security forces arrested at least 60 workers. At the same time, several environmentalists were also arrested in the same area. This was the fifth strike of the workers at Sungun Mine in the past two years. They are demanding job classification, lifting discrimination between official personnel and partner companies, and formation of a workers' council among other requests. Sungun Copper Mine is the largest copper mine in the middle east. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='49728'> Branch 101 of the criminal court-2 of Varzaghan sentenced Asghar Mohammadi to 20 lashes for disseminating lies. According to an IPA source, Mr. Mohammadi's sentence came after he accepted the protesting workers as his clients. </coverage-outsourcing>