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Socialist Weekly Banned The Revolutionary Workers Party (Hezbe Kargarane Enqelabi-HKE), one of the three organizations in Iran that adhere to the Fourth International, has been subjected to a campaign of harassment in recent weeks.
On March 16, by order of the Islamic prosecutor, the HKE's paper, Kargar, was seized. Just before that, the person responsible for the shop that printed the paper, Mohammed Bagher Falsafi, was arrested.
On March 26, the revolutionary Islamic court banned Kargar for "defamation of the islamic republic of iran, as well as publication of lies and slanders against the judicial authorities."
Before, on March 12, a rally organized by the HKE to commemorate the anniversary of the oil nationalizations under the Mossadegh government in 1951 attacks against the HKE come in the context of a more and more sweeping policy of persecution, arbitrary imprisonment and arrest by the bourgeois government.
In December 1981, a member of the HKE Political Bureau, Bahram Ali Atai, was arrested and jailed without any formal charge in Teheran's Evin prison. Following a defense campaign, he was released on March 3.
On March 8, Kargar published an interview with Comrade Bahram Ali Atai, in which he described the abuses committed in the prison by the guards and offihighlighted the brutality to which the 6,000 prisoners in Evin are sub-
Nearly 80 persons are confined in every cell. These cells measure six meters by six meters. The prisoners are often beaten, and Bahram Ali Atai estimated that 10% of them had undergone severe
During his first weeks in the prison, secret executions took place two nights a week, with 75 prisoners being shot each
Atai's account was reported in the The HKE appealed to the Supreme Court against these violations of demo-
It stressed that since the overthrow of the monarchy, HKE activists have served 115 months in prison, without even being formally accused of any crime. The HKE has always taken a of defending the revolution against imperialism, and its members have served in the voluntary militia. them have been killed on the front in the war against Iraq.
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