Only a few days after the words of the head of the judiciary of the Islamic government about tolerance and justice in the election debates, the Gilan Revolutionary Court issued an inhuman death sentence to the labor activist Sharife Mohammadi due to her social activities. Simultaneously with the announcement of this verdict, a large number of labor activists and teachers who previously they had been sentenced to prison, including five women’s rights activists in Gilan, immediately after the end of the presidential election, they were summoned by the judiciary to execute the prison sentence.
This is not the first time that labor activists are victims of family disputes of different factions of Islamic capitalists. It goes without saying that all these conflicts are based on different methods of looting and exploiting workers and wage earners, and the main victims of these capitalist conflicts have always been the workers.
The inhuman sentence of death for Sharifa Mohammadi has been issued for this labor activist only because she is a worker and a woman. It should be a warning to women as the broadest section protesting against social lawlessness and to the working class as the main force of protest against living and social conditions. .
The need to fight against the death penalty is not hidden from any honorable person, but the fight to cancel the anti-human sentence issued for Sharifa Mohammadi and her unconditional release is of particular importance in the current situation. With a concerted and extensive effort to abolish this inhumane punishment, we have not only taken a serious step in the public struggle against the death penalty, but we will show that pushing back the various factions of the current capitalist rule in Iran can only be achieved by the organized struggle of workers and social activists.
With a united and organized struggle for the unconditional release of Sharifa Mohammadi, we should prepare the ground for the struggle for the release of all imprisoned labor activists and other political prisoners and a broad struggle against the death penalty.
July 2024
Campaign for Supporting Iranian Workers
The organizations in solidarity with the labour movement in Iran
Council in Support of Workers’ Alternatives in Iran
