Mansour Osanloo leader of the bus workers' union in Tehran, is finally free.

The online campaign we waged by LabourStart four years ago was one of the largest they ever did.  We are enormously pleased to learn the good news.

• You can read an account of his release here.
• There is have full coverage of workers' struggles in Iran here.
• You can hear Osanloo's voice - in a one minute interview Eric Lee did with him in London five years ago here.  (The first minute is Osanloo speaking in Farsi, followed by a translation.)

The struggle waged by trade unions around the world - especially the International Transport Workers Federation - kept the pressure up.

Osanloo was never forgotten and now he is free.

Please take a moment to sign up to the current LabourStart campaigns - send off your messages of protest to the governments of Iraq, Swaziland, Bahrain and Chile.  Online campaigns work -- if we get enough people to support them.  Spread the word!  Forward this email!