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Work Justice advocates to be whipped - your help needed

Message from LabourStart:

Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi, have been sentenced to jail terms and whipping for the “crime” of having participated in a May Day demonstration this year. Sousan has been ordered to receive 9 months in prison and 70 lashes.

In the last few days we have received photographs of Sousan and Shiva. http://www.labourstart.org/iran

The campaign that we launched is now running in an unprecedented ten languages, with more to come. And so far, 3,448 people have sent off messages to the Iranian government.

This is not enough.

We must all redouble our efforts in the next few days to prevent this barbaric sentence from being carried out, to prevent the execution of the teacher Farzad Kamangar, and to push for the release of all jailed worker activists in Iran.

For those of you who already did send off your message, thank you — but please do more.

Please pass this message on. Help us mobilize thousands more people to support of our sisters and brothers in Iranian jails.

If you are on Facebook, make sure to sign up to our cause - and sign up your Facebook friends, here:

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/110025

August is a very difficult time to mobilize people. Many who would ordinarily be supporting this campaign are away on holiday. That’s why it’s so important that if you are reading this message, you act now.

Sousan and Shiva need our help. Let’s not fail them.