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2019-01-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran re-arrests labor protest leader Esmail Bakhshi

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian labor protest leader, Esmail Bakhshi, has been incarcerated
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for the second time, state media reported Monday, after the judiciary denied his claim that he was tortured in jug late last year.

Bakhshi "was arrested last night in cooperation with security and law enforcement forces," Mansour Mohammadi, the prosecutor general of Dezful, in Khuzestan province, told the judiciary’s news website Mizan Online.

Bakhshi was one of the organizers of weeks of protests at the Haft Tapeh sugar factory in the city of Shush in November and December, over unpaid wages and alleged criminal activity by new private owners.

State TV on Saturday broadcast a program claiming that Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian, another activist who supported the Haft Tapeh strikers, had connections with Europe-based activists who "aim to topple the state".

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