Defend Iran socialists!
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As wr go to press there is still no further news of the fourteen members of the Iranian HKS, (Socialist Workers Party) currently facing a retrial in Ahwaz at the hands of the Islamic regime.
At the first trial-at which no detence lawyers • Were allowed-twelve of the defendants were sentenced to death, and two to life imprisonment on charges arising from the HKS's support for the struggles of Iranian women and national minorities for democratic rights.
An energetic campaign of pickets and protests to Iranian embassies appears to have pressurised the regime into a tempo. rary retreat from implementing these savage sentences, but they remain in acute danger.
Trade union branches and other Labour and student movement bodies must immediately take up this fight and send telegrams to the Iranian embassy in London demanding the immediate release . of the HKS members and an end to the repression of Kurdish and other national minorities in iran.
Among the organisations to have done so last week: was Oxford NUJ branch, which sent a telegram calling for the release of the HKS prisoners and an end to press censorship in Iran.
Picket
Iranian Embassy Saturday Sept. 15 12 am-1pm led by Association of dish Students Abroac