Deutsche Zusammenfassung des Appells

Die Festnahme der beiden durch die US Besatzungadministration wird verurteilt. Dabei wird betont, dass dieser Akt in der Nacht zum 24.November 2003 nicht die erste Maßnahme gegen die Erwerbslosengewerkschaft ist: Bereits im August 2003 waren Qasim Hadi und 54 weitere Aktivisten bei einem sitzstreik festgenommen worden.

Die Konfrontation mit den sich gegen den Hunger wehrenden Menschen im Irak wird als Beispiel genant, dass es den USA mit ihrem Krieg um die 'Eingliederung des Irak in die "Neue Weltordnung" ging und nicht um Menschenrechte, Massenvernichtungswaffen etc.

Es wird die sofortige Freilassung der Festgenommen gefordert und der Abzug der US Truppen.

Gewerkschaften, politische Parteien und freiheitsliebende Menschen aller Welt werden zu Solidaritätsbekundungen aufgerufen.

Unterzeichnet ist der Aufruf vom Auslandsvertreter der UUI.

Protestbriefe können über die Schweizer US-Botschaft an Paul Bremer geschickt werden. - Siehe Adresse unten.

Weitere informationen usw:
In Bagdad : Bab Al-Sharki, Al Rasheed Street, Old Labor Union Building. Bagdad, Iraq/ per e-mail : UUI
In London: Dasthy Jamal, e-mail : Jamal oder per Telefon (englisch): (0044) 07734704742

Appeal from the Union of the Unemployed  in Iraq - UUI

We  condemn the arrest of Kasim Hadi, president of the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq UUI and Adil Salih, one  of the activists of UUI through the US-Administration in Baghdad in Iraq.  

On night 23/24.November 2003 the US- soldiers in Baghdad arrested Mr.  Kasim Hadi, president of the union of the unemployed in Iraq and Adil Salih, one activist of the UUI.    It is not the first time that the US-Administration in Iraq arrested the trade union leaders and worker activists. In August 2003 during a Sit-in strike in Baghdad arrested the US- Soldiers in Baghdad Kasim Hadi with 54 striking unemployed persons. This action is against all values and principles of the human rights, democracy and is a clear violation of the right to organization and political freedoms. For the interest of which group, the US-Administration arrest the worker activists? Is that at the interest of the Islamisten that attacked the peaceful demonstration of the UUI in Nassiriya?  Kasim Hadi and Union activists leaded the protests of the unemployed people in the front the headquarters of the USA in Baghdad for 50 days to achieve their demand: jobs or unemployment insurance for millions of unemployed people and their families.  UUI is the biggest union that represents the unemployed people in Iraq. Because of the American invasion in Iraq, millions of people had lost their jobs. Poverty, Deprivation, lack of security, hunger rules the country. The US war against Iraq has nothing to do with human right, weapons of mass destruction, and liberation of Iraq and democracy. The daily Experience of the people in the Iraq showed this fact very clearly. The USA wants to impose its New World Order, Dominance and hegemony on the world.

We demand immediate and unconditional release of Kasim Hadi and Adil Salih from the American prisons in Iraq. The U.S- administration doesn't have not only any right to arrest them but also not any right to occupy Iraq and to continue terrorism and warfare in Iraq.

We demand the immediate departure of U.S. and occupying forces from Iraq. They should leave the country for its unions and women organizations and the progressive Iraqi population, who defend their interests.  

We call on all freedom-loving people , Worker unions, political parties and human rights organizations  Worldwide, to demand from the USA the immediate release of Kasim Hadi, the president of UUI and Adil Salih and to demand them to respect the political freedom and civilian rights in Iraq .  

Union of the Unemployed in Iraq-UUI, Aso Jabbar, Representative abroad

Bern, 26. November 2003

Protest letters to Mr. Paul Bremer, U.S. Civil administrator in Baghdad, through US-Embassy in Switzerland, Jubilaumstreet   93, Post Box, 3001 Bern, Switzerland Please send us a copy.