According to reports from Iranian Workers Union, today 17 December 2018 , 28 workers from the Ahwaz Steel National Industrial Group, who have striking for more than one month, been arrested by security forces and transferred to an undisclosed location.
The following is the list of workers currently detained:
1- Meysam Ali Ghanavati
2- Isa Mar’ee
3- Amin Alvani
4- Morteza Akbarian
5- Taregh Khalafi
6- Masoud Afri
7- Jafar Sobhani
8-Mostafa Ebeyat
9-Gharib Houizawi
10- Karim Sayahi
11- Hamed Baseri
12- Hafez Kanaani
13 - Hamed Jodaki
14- Hossein Davoodi
15- Kazem Heydari
16- Yasser Ebrahimian
17- Majid Janandleh
18- Cyrus Ismaili
19- Ali Agh’ba
20- Mohsen Baluti
21- Mohammad Pour Hasan
22- Mohsen Pah’bati
23- Seyyed Habib Tabataba’i
24- Jassem Romezi
25 - Ali Etmami
26- Seyyed Ali Javadpour
27- Javad Gholami
28 - Abdolreza Dasti
 Despite the crackdown and arrests, workers of the Ahwaz Steel National Industrial Group, continued their protests for 37th day in the city centre of Ahwaz and shouted slogans demanding the release of their fellow colleagues, and putting an end to state corruption.
The Ahwazi Human Rights Organization condemns the arrest of labor activists by the security forces. We also condemns the crackdown on labor protests and peaceful strikers who are demanding the immediate release of their detained colleagues, and their unpaid wages.
Ahwaz Human Rights organization
17 December 2018