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  • (Arrested) Bus Workers Go On Strike in Prison ( hunger strike to protest their imprisonment)

    02/05/2006 7:52:24 AM PST · by nuconvert · 8 replies · 318+ views
    roozonline.com ^ | Feb. 5, 2006
    Bus Workers Go On Strike in Prison Bahram Rafiee Feb. 5, 2006 Iran’s domestic media have been banned from publishing news on the government crackdown of the strike of bus drivers who again took to the streets in protest of their conditions. There are news reports that many arrests have followed the government clampdown and that those arrested had been transferred to the harsh 209-ward of the notorious Evin prison in northern Tehran. There are also reports that the prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment. Khedmat, an internet news site close to hardline president Ahmadinejad...