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Labor Rights

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

February 15, 2022

Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights activists and a journalist in various cities throughout the country. A lawyer who has represented several labor activists could also soon be sent to prison for ...

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

February 3, 2022

Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on the country's burgeoning teachers' rights movement. A grassroots teachers’ rights movement is gaining steam in Iran, where large street protests by teachers are increasingly sprouting ...

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

December 13, 2021

Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...

Iran Rights Lawyer: Judicial Process is a “Means to Settle Political Scores”

Iran Rights Lawyer: Judicial Process is a “Means to Settle Political Scores”

November 11, 2021

One of the few remaining defense lawyers in Iran willing to take on human rights cases, Nasser Zarafshan is an expert at navigating the Islamic Republic’s judicial system, which criminalizes dissent and imprisons lawyers like Zarafshan for doing their job. Usually tried under trumped-up “national security” ...

Oil Industry Strikes Gain Support Across Iran, Raising Prospect of Confrontation with State

Oil Industry Strikes Gain Support Across Iran, Raising Prospect of Confrontation with State

June 29, 2021

Incoming President Raisi’s Record of Violence against Protesters Increases Concerns June 29, 2021—The continuation of strikes in Iran’s critical oil and petrochemical facilities—not seen on this scale for more than four decades—and the massive show of support from workers in other sectors, may well be a turning ...

More Defense Attorneys Prosecuted in Iran for Defending Human Rights

More Defense Attorneys Prosecuted in Iran for Defending Human Rights

June 1, 2021

The state policy of persecuting and imprisoning independent defense lawyers under false charges for doing their jobs is continuing under Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, who is running for the presidency in June 2021. In addition to at least four defense attorneys who are currently imprisoned in ...

Labor Day in Iran: Listen to the People’s Demands for Basic Rights

Labor Day in Iran: Listen to the People’s Demands for Basic Rights

April 30, 2021

Unpaid Wages and Benefits, Unfair Wages Trigger Increasingly Organized Strikes Labor Activists Jailed Under Trumped-Up Charges April 30, 2021 – As International Labor Day approaches, workers across Iran are facing a deepening crisis and inability to meet their most basic economic needs, as reflected in the growing ...

Crippling Economic Hardship Enflames Iranian Protests

Crippling Economic Hardship Enflames Iranian Protests

April 28, 2021

Protests in Iran over high inflation and unpaid wages are spreading in Iran as the working class and retirees struggle to make ends meet. The largest organized rallies were held by retirees who are unable to support themselves on their small pensions. They were joined ...

Iran’s New Minimum Wage Set “Below Poverty Line”

Iran’s New Minimum Wage Set “Below Poverty Line”

March 24, 2021

Labor Ministry Calculations Ignore Actual Rate of Inflation At the end of every year in Iran, the Labor Ministry sets the national minimum wage for the following year, determining a base income for more than 40 million Iranian workers. For the Persian year 1400, starting ...

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran

February 1, 2021

Suicides increased in Iran in 2020, according to state medical data. Blue-collar workers as well as students who’ve been disproportionately impacted by the country’s struggling economy dominated media reports of people taking their own lives. The victims include an 11-year-old boy in Bushehr, located on the Persian Gulf coast, ...

“Suffering” Iranian Retirees Joining Nationwide Protests Against Chronic State Failures

“Suffering” Iranian Retirees Joining Nationwide Protests Against Chronic State Failures

January 19, 2021

On January 10, 2021, Iranian retirees gathered in front of government buildings in at least 19 cities including--Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, and Yazd--to protest the government’s lack of response to their demands. The protesters, who receive retirement checks from the State Welfare Organization's (SWO) pension fund, ...

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

September 30, 2020

Rushed Convictions Show Judiciary Willing to Do Bidding of Intelligence Forces State Responds to Growing Societal Discontent with Intensified Efforts to Silence All Dissent October 1, 2020—In a blatant move to keep political prisoners in Iran behind bars despite completing their sentences, judicial authorities in Iran are increasingly issuing ...

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