Video of the reading of the statement of the association at the protest rally on May 14, 2019
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On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, Iranian leftist forces in Stockholm held a demonstration in support of the protests and demands of workers, teachers, and students, and in protest of their repression and arrest, in the central square of Stockholm, Sargol Square. Active comrades of the Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile) in Stockholm also participated in the demonstration, and comrade Mehr Afagh Moghimi Niaki, who was present at the demonstration along with other comrades from the Stockholm branch, read out the association’s statement in which it supported the struggles of workers, teachers, and other hardworking people and condemned their repression and arrest.
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Announcement of the call for the May 14th rally
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Following a call by the workers’ union of the Tehran Bus Company on May 1, International Workers’ Day, a large crowd of workers, teachers, students, and other hard workers gathered in front of the regime’s parliament on Wednesday, May 11. Not long after the rally, the police force, dressed in uniforms of government mercenaries, violently and brutally attacked the rally, beating and injuring a number of protesters and arresting at least 40. During the protests of the families of those arrested, they were released, but a number of workers, students, teachers, and their supporters are still in detention.
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The Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile) strongly condemns the attack on the May Day celebrations and the beating and arrest of a number of protesters, and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all those arrested on May 11, as well as all political and social activists and political prisoners from the prisons of the Islamic Republic. The Association, together with leftist parties and organizations, will participate in a rally to be held in Stockholm’s central square (Sargelstorget) on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in protest against the continued arrest of workers, teachers, and students, and calls on all freedom-loving Iranians to participate in this protest rally.
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Iranian Political Prisoners Center (in exile)-Stockholm
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May 13, 2019