Mohsen Hakimi was freed on Wednesday 18 February. Since his arrest on 22 December 2008 Hakimi has been held in block 209 of Evin Prison, where he was held in solitary confinement and subjected to physical and psychological abuse.
Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network will continue to highlight the cases of Mansour Osanloo, Farzad Kamangar and Zeynab Jalaliyan as part of a campaign to release of all political prisoners in Iran.
An injury to one is an injury to all!
Free all political prisoners in Iran!
IWSN campaign
Mohsen Hakimi
Mohsen Hakimi is a translator, a member of the Iranian Writers’ Association and a long-standing labour activist. His translations include Six Existentialist Thinkers, Philosophers of Peace and War and Georg Lukacs’s The Young Hegel among other philosophy books.
Together with six other labour activists he was arrested in Saghez (Iranian Kurdistan) on 1 May 2004 - just before a May Day rally was to take place. In November 2005 he was given a two year suspended sentence for his part in organising the rally. This sentencing followed an international campaign in defence of the Saghez Seven which helped reduce or drop most of the serious charges.
Hakimi was re-arrested on 22 December 2008 and is now in Evin Prison. His arrest was part of series of arrests of labour activists around Christmas.
Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
21 February 2009