Comrade
Manzoor was arrested on a demonstration this morning, after leading many
demonstrations throughout the Punjab. We have
just received this message from Pakistan.
Comrade Manzoor Ahmed, the Marxist MP is also president of the Pakistan Trade
Union Defence Campaign.
This is a report by Iranian students on a meeting to
organise protest against brutal measures meted out by the authorities including
the sentencing of three Amir
Kabir University
student activists. The meeting also suffered police harassment. This is an
ongoing situation Iranian students have to suffer.
We have just received the news that Chaudhary Munir Ahmed, a member of
the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign and younger brother of
Manzoor Ahmed, Member of Parliament and President of the PTUDC, has
been arrested together with some labour activists and leaders involved
in the PTUDC together with other lawyers. We need to raise as wide a
campaign as possible in their defence.