Ebrahim Madadi

<p>He is the vice president of Tehran Bus Company Workers' Syndicate. He has been arrested and sentenced to prison several times</p>

<coverage-outsourcing id='8061'> He was arrested due to the protests made by the Tehran Bus Company Syndicate. He was fired from his job, and despite the verdict of the Office of Administrative Justice to overturn that decision, he was unable to get his job back due to the pressures from security organizations </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8452'> According to Mr. Madadi, in a letter to the president of the International Labor Organization, he informed him on "some of the extreme violations of fundamental labor rights, especially syndicate rights" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8451'> In a letter to the chairman of International Labor Organization, he asked him to investigate the violations of fundamental labor rights in Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8453'> The office building of Tehran Bus Company Syndicate was sealed </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8062'> He was arrested at a gathering in front of Mansour Osanloo's house and was sentenced to two years in prison by branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court. On December 2007, his attorney, Parviz Khorshid informed ISNA that his client has been acquitted by branch 44 of Tehran appeal court and released from Ghezel Hessar Prison. He was arrested for four months </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8063'> He was sentenced by branch 14 of the Revolutionary Court to three and a half years in prison for attending the Tehran Bus Company workers' strike in 2005 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8064'> He was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison for the execution of his prison sentence. He spent his prison term in Ward 350 of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8454'> According to Coordination Committee to form Workers' Associations, Ebrahim Madadi, Davoud Razavi, and several other labor activists appeared in branch 6 of Moghaddas court in Evin and after case review, they received their acquittal verdict. The case which dates back to almost three years ago was opened after the lawsuit brought by Colonel Zamani of the security police </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8066'> He was arrested and incarcerated again while visiting Evin prison in order to ask for an extension of his furlough. According to Harana, International Confederation of Labor Unions and International Transport Workers' Federation voiced their shock and disgust for the rearrest of Ebrahim Madadi. David Cockroft, the general secretary of International Transport Workers' Union, called his arrest, unacceptable </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8065'> He was released on a furlough </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8067'> He was released at the end of his prison term </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8068'> According to Harana, 23 employees of Tehran Bus Company including Mr. Madadi were arrested during the Labor Day event. According to Mr. Nikbakht's defense statement, his client Mr. Madadi was released the same day </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8318'> He participated in the demonstrations regarding the 2015 minimum wage set by the ministry of labor </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8069'> According to Harana, Ebrahim Madadi was arrested just before the International Labor Day and transferred to Ward 209 in Evin Prison. Davoud Razavi was arrested a day before him. According to Harana's report, they were kept in solitary cells of Ward 209 for two weeks before they were transferred to public sweets of this ward. Also, they were not allowed visitations from their families, but they were each allowed at least one phone call </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8070'> Tehran Bus company Workers Syndicate condemned the arrest of Ebrahim Madadi, the vice-president of Tehran Bus Company Syndicate and Davoud Razavi of its board of directors, and demanded their immediate and unconditional release. Simultaneously, the Project for Monitoring the Protection of Human Rights Defenders also mentioned the arrest of Ebrahim Madadi, Davoud Razavi, Pedram Nasrollahi, OOsman Esmaeeli, and Mahmoud Salehi, and condemned the "constant persecution of syndicate activists in Iran" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8071'> Ebrahim Madadi and Davoud Razavi were released on 100 million toman bails </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8072'> The Mechanic Metal Workers' Union of Iran released a statement which demanded an end to the persecution of all the syndicate activists and mentioned him by name </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8074'> According to Radio Farda, in a letter to the Iranian government, Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation objected to the "recent wave of crackdowns on labor union leaders and labor activists" and asked the government to stop the persecution of Davoud Razavi, Ebrahim Madadi, and all the labor activists </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8073'> Hid trial was scheduled to be held in branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court on the charges of "assembly and conspiracy to act against national security and disrupting public order through attending illegal gatherings", but it was postponed by the request of his attorney due to his illness </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8075'> Ebrahim Madadi was tried in branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court. His defense attorney for this case was Mr. Saleh Nikbakht </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8076'> He was sentenced to five years and three months in prison by the branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary court. According to the website of Tehran Bus Company Syndicate, Mr. Madadi's charges are assembly and conspiracy with the intention of undermining national security, disruption of public order through participation in illegal assemblies such as forming a syndicate and participating in all the activities of the syndicate, leadership of the syndicate, challenging the verdicts issued by judicial authorities, participation in the assembly at the ministry of labor to decide the 2014 wages, and organizing and participating in the May 1st event assembly at Azadi Station </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8319'> "Tehran Bus Company Workers' Syndicate" announced that his case has been sent to appeal court, and published the defense statement of his attorney, Saleh Nikbakht. The defense statement argues that offering pastries to people on 2014 Labor Day and participation in a routine and uneventful demonstration in March of 2016 cannot be considered as acts against national security or any of the other security charges </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8450'> According to Tehran Bus Company Syndicate, Steve Cotton, the president of the International Transport Workers' Federation, wrote a letter to Hassan Rouhani to voice his objection to the prison sentences issued for Davoud Razavi and Ebrahim Madadi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='13273'> The Public Service Alliance of Canada published a statement "on behalf of the 643 thousand members of this union" in which they express their concern regarding the new attempts by Iran's judicial and security organizations to return Reza Shahabi to Prison, and demanded the overturn of his sentence and his immediate and unconditional release. They also demanded the overturn of the sentences for Ebrahim Madadi and Davoud Razavi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20435'> He was tried by the Appeals Court. His primary sentence was confirmed </coverage-outsourcing>