CHRI:

 

An Iranian union is considering a mass strike to protest a prominent labor activist being returned to prison to serve an additional year behind bars two years after he was released.

Reza Shahabi, a board member of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (UWTSBC), has been on a dry hunger strike since August 9, 2017.

“On Wednesday [September 6] we visited him in prison. He has severe headaches. His back hurts. His feet hurt. He has numbness on the left side of his body. He has become very weak. He has tingling in his left arm. He says his stomach hurts. His blood pressure and sugar level have dropped,” his wife, Robabeh Rezaei, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on September 8

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