Mohsen Hakimi was freed on Wednesday 18 February. Since his arrest on 22 December 2008 Hakimi has been held in block 209 of Evin Prison, where he was held in solitary confinement and subjected to physical and psychological abuse.
According to the Co-ordination Committee for the Creation of Labour Organisations on Wednesday 18 February 2009 Shiva Kheyrabadi and Susan Razani, two female labour activists, were flogged. The flogging of Ms Kheyrabadi and Ms Razani exposes the Iranian regime and shows the whole world its true colours.
Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network will be highlighting the cases of Mansour Osanloo, Farzad Kamangar, Mohsen Hakimi and Zeynab Jalaliyan to start a campaign for the release of all political prisoners in Iran. We publish here four short biographies.