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Mansour Osanlou

Mansour Osanlou

1960

Nationality
Iran
Occupation
worker

Mansour Osanlou (Persian: منصور اسانلو) is a trade union activist in Iran, where he was imprisoned several times from 2005 to 2008.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Evin Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Mansour Osanlou (Persian: منصور اسانلو) is a trade union activist in Iran, where he was imprisoned several times from 2005 to 2008. Osanlou was then held in Evin Prison, serving a five-year prison sentence, and freed in June 2013. He is a founding member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, an independent union that has been campaigning for workers’ rights.

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