Shahrzad News –On April 25, Mansour Osanloo, President of the Executive Committee at Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTSBC), was taken in handcuffs and shackles before the 6th investigative branch of the Karaj Revolutionary Court, where a new case was opened against him. According to the Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran (HRDAI), Osanloo has been accused of “having ties to the enemies of the state inside the prison.”

Under pressure exerted by the Intelligence Ministry interrogators, and based on a complaint filed by the Gohardasht prison warden and deputy warden, a new case has now been opened against Osanloo.

Osanloo has been under increasing physical and psychological pressures in recent months. He has repeatedly been placed in solitary confinement at ward 1; infamously known as the doghouse. On March 14, based on unfounded reasons, he was unexpectedly moved from ward 4 to ward 5 and placed with addicts and dangerous inmates who suffer from contagious diseases.

Free Iran:  For those that may not be familiar with Osanloo, he is a brave man as you see in this video from a while back.  Unfortunately, it’s in Persian but the essence of what he is saying is that I told the security agent that you want to imprison me?  I want independence, freedom and social justice.  I want people not to be poor.  I want our girls not to be shipped to Dubai, Kuwait, etc. and be forced to prostitute themselves because of poverty.  The security agent shook his head and agreed.   Then he says Imam Ali (a major figure in Shia Islam) said  that if poverty comes from the door, then faith goes out out the window.  The video then shows how the regime agents cut the tip of his tongue.  Don’t let the regime apologists in D.C. cover your eyes to people like Osanloo.