The International Transport Workers' Federation has appealed for the release of an Iranian union leader who reportedly was kidnapped earlier this week in Tehran. Mansour Osanloo, leader of a bus workers union, 'is still in custody somewhere by agents unknown,' federation spokesman Sam Dawson said Thursday. The Associated Press was unable to contact any member of his family in Tehran for information on the case. Osanloo, 47, president of the Sandikaye Kargarane Sherkate Vahed (Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company), was accosted by several men as he stepped off a bus Tuesday evening, the federation said, quoting information from its Iranian affiliate.
See "Union Wants Release of Iranian Activist", Associated Press, The New York Times, July 11, 2007