Charges Dropped Against Hassan Juma'a Awad

Sisters and Brothers:

We received this message in Arabic from Hassan Juma'a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions.  This is a machine translation, which is far from precise, but the underlying message is clear: the charges against him have been dropped.

In the name of God the merciful, and tell the truth and the falsehood that the falsehood was zhoka on 7/1/2013* that historic day where the judge decided the misdemeanor charges against heroes of Basra and innocence about me and close the proceedings against me by the oil Ministry, thank all the brothers and sisters of the trade unions and civil society organizations, international organizations and international activists who stood with me and follow the case from the moment the first forayed into the Court and I was convinced of the Justice of the Iraqi judiciary which considered the case very carefully. It was a brave decision taken today is the Court lived alone Iraq workers ashandal workers

Hassan jumaa Awad, President of the Federation of oil unions.

 

* This also happens to be his birthday.

This victory would not have been possible without the concerted international solidarity campaign, which drew support from an unprecedented array of international and national labor federations, national unions, local and regional labor organizations and allied NGOs (listed below). 

This is a great victory, but it is one battle in a larger class conflict in Iraq and internationally. 

We need to continue our efforts to secure basic rights for the working people of Iraq.  There will be other targets of employer and state repression who will need our support.  So we need to formalize our effort and establish a way for our organizations (and others) to contribute financially to support the solidarity effort.  USLAW, Solidarity Center, and the Iraq Civil Society Solidarity Initiative will continue to work together to further this effort.

USLAW underwrote most of Brother Juma'a's legal expenses.  You can help replenish the Solidarity Fund with a donation.  Every dollar contributed to this fund supports the international solidarity work of USLAW.

International solidarity efforts for Hassan Juma Awad and the oil workers of Iraq must continue.
Charges on Hassan Juma'a were dropped today
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1st of July 2013