Arrest of workers of Yousufiya-Baghdad under the pretext of insurgency

The American forces on the night of 16.11.2004 in Yousufiya town, Alsaidat Village arrested a number of workers in their homes under the pretext and allegation of armed insurgency against American forces, despite they are continuing in their working in the Company for oil productions in Baghdad. The workers are Kais Mutalak Najm ,Issam Ali Hussein , Hussein Ali Hussein and Ahmad Algarizi and they have been transported to an unknown place .We strongly condemn these aggressive actions of US forces against the workers and civilians and we demand immediate release of the arrested workers .We appeal to all labour unions , human rights and international organisations and political parties to stand behind the workers in Iraq and their labour activists and progressive people in Iraq and to condemn the aggressive operations of US forces in Iraq which have the aim of strengthening the US - control over Iraq .Thousands of civilian people became victims of this aggressions by both US forces and political Islamic groups. We refuse to convert the resident places and work places of people to battle fields of military confrontations.


17.11.2004

FWCUI