Campaign to free jailed Iranian trade unionist

Afshin Osanloo is a truck driver who had been organising with fellow workers to win better pay and conditions. In the autumn of 2010, he was arrested and tortured for five months. Afshin was subsequently jailed for 5 years on the grounds of being a threat to national security. Afshin is only one of many workers in Iran who is defying the government in order to achieve justice and better living conditions.

Afshin Osanloo is a truck driver who had been organising with fellow workers to win better pay and conditions. In the autumn of 2010, he was arrested and tortured for five months. Afshin was subsequently jailed for 5 years on the grounds of being a threat to national security. Afshin is only one of many workers in Iran who is defying the government in order to achieve justice and better living conditions.