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Should be made onCho enter poi "Interconti- NO nental Pruss' and sent to: IP/I, PO AMNESTY International has received a reply from the Iranian Foreign Minithe samente protest at the sentences passed on 14 members of the HKS (Socialist Workers Party) in Ahwaz. The minister also appeared on TV on Sunday 2 Septemand admitted that he been besieged by enquiries abroad about the tate of the 14.
The reply denies that the death sentence was ever passed on members of the HKS, and states that their is still However, it adds that two the have been sentenced for charges including 'blowing up an oil pipeline in Khuzestan'.
This certainly • „villar diets information received by Socialist Challenge and substantiated in the Tehran daily newspaper BmWomen This stated that two women members, Fatima Fallahi and Mahsa Hashhad been convicted on charges of 'anti-Islamic activities', slanders against the government. (such as that there is repression and the suppression of demo- of cracy) and being members of the Executive Committee of the SWP of Ahwaz'.
mention of any charges of sabotage was made in Bamdad.
Confirmation that all 14 socialists are still alive is certainly welcome The fact that the governHAMID SHAHRABI ment has been forced by international pressure to intervene in the trials which are being conducted and without legal representation, proves the vital impor•proves the vital importance of internationally coordinated defence activity in support of the struggles in Iran Nevertheless. international pressure must be Kepl up. Reports from Tehran indicate that harassment of the left is still. continuing House searches for opposition literature are conducted by armed Imam Guards. Danger Furthermore, the lives the HKS members remain in danger. Two lawyers who visited Iran in August at the request of the International Federation for the Rights of Man went to Karoun jail Ahwaz, where the HKS members were at that time being held.
The lawyers, Mous Oussedik and Michel Zavrian, described the prison as a concentranon camp, operated outside of any judicial control' The HKS members, they brutal treatments theid said 'had political maturity, •their refusal to compromise and the intuence they laye their fellow WOl prisoners through dignified comportment have won them the hatred of the Islamic Committee.. they are the ones who risk the most.' Immense Protests around the world have pul mense pressure on the Iranian government. Trade union and about leaders from France, SweSpam, West land, Spain, Germany, Australia, Canada and the US have sent telegrams to the Khomeini-Bazargan ment:
In this country a letter of protest handed in to the Iranian Embassy in London was signed by Labour MPs Tony Benn, Reg Race, Ernie Roberts, Michael Meacher, Stan Newens and Alf Dubs.
A petition circulated at week's won broad support.
• A series of meetings are being organised in England, Scotland and Wales around the question of Khomeini's repression, in particular that against the Kunda Embassy again this Satur day 12 to Ipm, 16 Princes Gate, London SW7.
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