This is the list of information on planned activities by unions for the ITUC/ITF International Action Day in solidarity with Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi on Thursday 9 August 2007.

The ITF released its press statement today.

Amnesty International has also released its statement in support of the unions' worldwide actions and will join events in London and other locations.

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In London, the ITF and the UK trade unions, together with Amnesty International will take part in a protest vigil outside the Iranian Embassy. The delegation plans to deliver the ITF petition. The participants to the vigil will carry the campaign posters and also hold boards displaying the names of those people who have signed the petition.

In Geneva, a delegation composed of representatives from Global Unions including the ITUC, UNI, PSI and IUF will visit the Mission to Iran and meet with the Ambassador at 15h30.  The ITUC is also planning a meeting with the Iranian Mission in Brussels.

Australia
An ACTU delegation of union officials including ITF affiliates such as RTBU, ASU and MUA will seek an audience with the Iranian Ambassador and deliver a letter of protest at the Iranian Embassy in Canberra.

Japan
A delegation from RENGO will meet with the Ambassador at the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo on 9 August and also submit a protest letter and copies of the ITF petition.  Mac Urata will represent the ITF at the event. The IUF-JC representatives will also participate.

Indonesia
ITF affiliates are sending their individual protest letters to the Iranian Embassy in Jakarta.  On 9 August a delegation of ITF affiliates will take part in a demonstration outside the Embassy where a joint protest letter will be submitted.  Local media have been contacted.

Malaysia
The ITF Malaysia Council plans to deliver a protest letter to the Iranian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

Thailand
Affiliates in Thailand will participate in the Action Day.  The ITF Coordinating Committee is seeking cooperation with ITUC affiliates.

Nepal
As there is no Iranian diplomatic mission in the country, NETWON will visit the Ministry of Nepal Government and submit a protest letter.  The union has also consulted the NTUC for possible joint action.

Pakistan
The Pakistan Transport Workers’ Federation has sent letters to the President of Iran as well as the Iranian Ambassador in Islamabad and the Iranian Consulate General in Lahore demanding the immediate release of Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi.  On 9 August, the union will organise a rally in front of the Press Club Lahore.

Iran
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) has asked supporters to gather at Mansour Osanloo's house in Tehran between 10.00 and 19:00. Events are also planned in Kurdistan. Independent workers’ groups have called a demonstration in front of Tehran University.

Jordan
The General Union of Petrochemicals and the General Union of Road Transport Workers will write protest letters and deliver them by hand to the Iranian Embassy.  The General union of Port workers will send a protest letter by fax to the embassy.

Palestine
The General Union of Transport Workers will send solidarity letters to the Iranian Embassy in Jordan by fax.

Yemen
The General Federation of Transport Workers will write a protest letter and deliver it by hand to the Iranian Embassy.

Egypt
The General Union of Air Transport Workers and the General Union of Land Transport will gather in front of the Iranian Embassy to protest and deliver solidarity letters

Algeria
The General Union of Railway Workers will send a protest letter be sent to the Iranian Embassy by fax.

Tunisia
Workers from the National Federation of Transport plans to gather in front of the Iranian Embassy to protest and deliver solidarity letters

Morocco
Union leaders from the General Union of Land Transport and the General Federation of Port Workers, together with other colleagues will demonstrate in front of the Iranian Embassy and send protest letters to the Iranian government.

Finland
AKT will visit the Iranian Embassy in Helsinki, together with the Finnish Food Workers’ Union and submit the ITF petition as well as the union’s petition.

Sweden
A delegation from LO Sweden will deliver a letter to the Iranian Embassy on 9 August.

Norway
Four trade unions (Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund, Norsk Jernbaneforbund, Fagforbundet and Yrkestrafikkforbundet) have confirmed that they will organise a demonstration in front of the Iranian Embassy at 12 o'clock.  A letter of protest will be handed over to the Ambassador.

Spain
UGT will submit the ITF petition to the Iranian Embassy on 9 August.  The union is coordinating its activities for the Action Day with CC.OO.

France
French unions are planning a demonstration at the Iranian Embassy at 13h00 on 9 August.  The CGT as well as Force Ouvrière will join this protest action. The FO will mobilize its transport and food sections. The CFDT has released a press statement.  The union will participate in the activity outside the Iranian Embassy in Paris on 9 August.    The union has circulated the ITF petition to all union contacts and has written to the Iranian President.

Great Britain
The ITUC/ITF campaign has been advertised to all UK trade union contacts and activists in the London region.  The Amnesty UK Section has also highlighted Mahmoud Salehi's case in its monthly online action E-zine which is sent to 60,000 registered activists in the UK.

The RMT has sent a message to union activists calling for their support.  The union has also highlighted the protest appeal on its website.

The ITUC-ITF appeal has been circulated to all GMB staff and activists asking them to sign the online petition.

UNISON has publicised the appeal on its webpage calling for people to take action.

The National Union of Journalists has raised Osanloo’s case at its International Committee.

The British National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) has asked its activists to sign the online petition and send letters of protest to the Iranian Embassy.

Ireland
The General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions sent a protest letter to the Iranian government on 7 August.

Austria
The Austrian union for transport and services, VIDA is in contact with the Foreign Ministry and has requested a meeting with the Ambassador at the Iranian Embassy, which will take place next week.  On 9 August, a union delegation will visit the Embassy to deliver the ITF petition.

Germany
Bus workers in Frankfurt are planning a protest action.

TRANSNET has publicized the Action Day to all union activists.

GDBA has sent a protest letter to the Ambassador and asked all union activists to do the same.

Netherlands
The FNV has publicised the campaign on their website and urged people to sign the petition. They will present a petition to the Iranian Ambassador on 9 August. The union plans to nominate Mansour Osanloo for an "achievement award" for trade unionists.

Switzerland
SEV will organize a protest action in front of the Iranian Embassy in Berne and submit the union's protest letter.  Media have been invited to the event.

Romania
Federatia Sindicala Transloc intends to picket the Iranian Embassy and distribute leaflets calling for the release of Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi.

Hungary
The Free Trade Union of Railway Workers (VDSzSz) has publicised the appeal on its website encouraging members and visitors to sign the petition. They will visit the Iranian Embassy and hand-out the ITF petition.

Belarus
The ITUC-affiliated Belarussian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BCDTU) sent a protest letter to the Iranian Mission in Minsk on 7 August. The union is also trying to obtain a meeting with the Ambassador on 9 August.

Panama
ITF affiliates in Panama will deliver a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting that the Government communicate the unions' request that Brothers Osanloo and Salehi are released immediately to the Iranian Government.

Trinidad
The Seamen & Waterfront Workers' Trade Union will hold a press conference to highlight the plight of the Iranian prisoners.

Canada
The Canadian Labour Congress has written to the Ambassador.  A CLC protest vigil will be held in Toronto – Queen’s Park on 9 August between 12h30-13h30.

USA
Representatives from the Teamsters Union and Solidarity Center will visit the Iranian Interest Section in Washington DC on 9 August to deliver the letters from their respective leadership.