*Editor’s Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where he had been illegally held since October 23. Teachers’ Rights Activist, Held Against His Will at Psychiatric Hospital in Iran and Forcibly Given Medications, Must Be Released Immediately  Wife and Son of Hashem Khastar Arrested with Other Protestors, … Continue reading Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization Cannot Become New Means of Silencing Dissent in Iran