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Labor Rights

“This Verdict Means Any Protest Will Be Considered an Act of Violence”

“This Verdict Means Any Protest Will Be Considered an Act of Violence”

December 20, 2019

Nine Labor Rights Activists and Journalists Sentenced to Prison Without Right to Appeal Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi Eliminated Appeal Process with Supreme Leader’s Blessing Nine labor activists were each sentenced to five years in prison on December 14, 2019, on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security” at Branch ...

Iran Releases Seven Political Prisoners on Bail Without Explanation

Iran Releases Seven Political Prisoners on Bail Without Explanation

October 28, 2019

Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian convert, four journalists and two activists were released from prisons in Iran on October 26, 2019, without any public announcement as to who ordered their long-sought release or why others who’d been ...

Sepideh Qoliyan Said She Was Tortured in Iran, Now She’s Serving an 18-Year Prison Sentence

Sepideh Qoliyan Said She Was Tortured in Iran, Now She’s Serving an 18-Year Prison Sentence

October 7, 2019

Female Activist Described Inhumane Conditions of Detention in Video Statement  *Warning: This article contains content that could be upsetting or disturbing for some readers. Sepideh Qoliyan is currently serving an 18.6-year prison sentence in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women after being arrested at workers’ rights ...

Striking Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Add Colleagues’ Freedom to List of Demands

Striking Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Add Colleagues’ Freedom to List of Demands

September 27, 2019

More than three years into ongoing strikes for unpaid wages and benefits, workers of Iran’s biggest sugar plant are now also calling for their imprisoned colleagues’ freedom. Hundreds of workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro-industrial Complex in the city of Shush, southwestern Iran, attended a fifth consecutive ...

Audio Message From Gharchak Prison Reveals Intense Pressure on Labor Activist Sepideh Qoliyan

Audio Message From Gharchak Prison Reveals Intense Pressure on Labor Activist Sepideh Qoliyan

September 20, 2019

Mehdi Qoliyan Acquitted of All Charges After Violent Home Raid On September 14, 2019, the BBC aired an audio file containing the voice of labor activist Sepideh Qoliyan saying that she was pressured to make a false confession by agents while held in Gharchak Prison ...

Mass Sentencing of Labor Activists, Journalists Prelude to Reign of Repression Under New Judiciary Chief

Mass Sentencing of Labor Activists, Journalists Prelude to Reign of Repression Under New Judiciary Chief

September 9, 2019

Seven Sentenced to Lengthy Jail Terms in Connection with Peaceful Protests September 9, 2019—Less than a year after workers’ rights activists in southwestern Iran publicized evidence that Intelligence Ministry agents had tortured detainees, those same activists and four independent journalists who covered their cases have been ...

Supporters of Detained Workers’ Rights Activists Arrested Outside Courthouse 

Supporters of Detained Workers’ Rights Activists Arrested Outside Courthouse 

August 12, 2019

The family of labor activist Roham Yeganeh has not heard from him since he was arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on August 3, 2019, his mother, Atieh Nouri, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on August 6. Yeganeh and several others were ...

Major Trade Union Federations Call on Iran to Release Detained Workers’ Rights Activists

Major Trade Union Federations Call on Iran to Release Detained Workers’ Rights Activists

August 8, 2019

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) have called on Iranian authorities to release detained workers' rights activists including Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan. *Letters by the ITUC and AFL-CIO were sent to Iranian leaders ...

Independent News Editor in “Terrible Shape” After One-Month Hunger Strike

Independent News Editor in “Terrible Shape” After One-Month Hunger Strike

August 2, 2019

Amirhossein Mohammadifar and his wife Sanaz Allahyari, also a journalist, began a hunger strike on July 3, 2019, to protest their prolonged detention. The health of Amirhossein Mohammadifar, the detained editor-in-chief of the independent “Gam” Telegram app news channel, has ...

Iran: Release Four Women Detained at Labor Day Protest

Iran: Release Four Women Detained at Labor Day Protest

July 22, 2019

From left to right: Marzieh Amiri, Atefeh Rangriz, Neda Naji, and Anisha Asadollahi. Four women arrested on May 1, 2019, after attending a Labor Day rally in Tehran ...

30 Tehran University Academics Call for Release of Detained Journalist Marzieh Amiri

30 Tehran University Academics Call for Release of Detained Journalist Marzieh Amiri

June 20, 2019

Thirty scholars and researchers at the University of Tehran have called for the release of detained reporter Marzieh Amiri in a letter addressing Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mansour Gholami. Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper and student at the university, has been in ...

At Least 40 Detained in Connection With Protests at Ahvaz Sugar Mill

At Least 40 Detained in Connection With Protests at Ahvaz Sugar Mill

June 20, 2019

A group of workers of the Hafteh Tappeh sugar mill company in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, published a list of 40 names of colleagues and supporters who’ve been detained in recent months in connection with protests for unpaid wages at the mill. “We know that the names of many ...

Haft Tappeh Workers Urge International Labor Organization to Investigate Suppression of Labor Protests

Haft Tappeh Workers Urge International Labor Organization to Investigate Suppression of Labor Protests

June 7, 2019

*A group of workers in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, have published an open letter calling on the International Labor Organization (ILO) to investigate state suppression of workers' rights protests at the local Half Tappeh sugarcane mill. “We hereby submit a brief report and our official ...

Seven to Face Trial in Connection with Labor Protests

Seven to Face Trial in Connection with Labor Protests

May 22, 2019

Many Denied Access to Counsel, Families Warned to Stay Quiet After months of unlawful prosecution in connection with workers’ rights protests in southwestern Iran, five journalists and two labor activists are due to go on trial at Branch 15 of the revolutionary court in Tehran presided by Judge ...

Several Detained Without Access to Counsel One Week After Labor Day Protests

Several Detained Without Access to Counsel One Week After Labor Day Protests

May 7, 2019

Several workers’ rights activists including teachers who were arrested at rallies in Tehran on May 1 (International Labor Day) and May 2 (Iran’s Teachers’ Day) remain in detention without access to legal counsel, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The protests, which also occurred in ...

Crackdown in Iran: Several Arrested at May Day Protests

Crackdown in Iran: Several Arrested at May Day Protests

May 1, 2019

A peaceful demonstration by people demanding workers’ rights in front of Iran’s Parliament in Tehran on International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2019, was violently repressed after police and plainclothes security agents attacked the crowd and arrested dozens of workers. ...

Security Forces Arrest Protesters in Front of Iran’s Parliament on Labor Day

Security Forces Arrest Protesters in Front of Iran’s Parliament on Labor Day

May 1, 2019

A peaceful demonstration by people demanding workers’ rights in front of Iran’s Parliament in Tehran on International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2019, was violently repressed after police and plainclothes security agents attacked the crowd and arrested dozens of workers. Those arrested include prominent bus trade unionist Reza ...

Workers’ Rights Activists Arrested for Revealing Torture by Intelligence Ministry Held Unlawfully

Workers’ Rights Activists Arrested for Revealing Torture by Intelligence Ministry Held Unlawfully

April 23, 2019

Lawyers representing workers’ rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan say the two are being held unlawfully now that their two-month detention orders have expired. “[Bakhshi’s] detention order ended on March 21 without an extension, which makes his detention a violation of Article 242 of the Criminal ...

Peaceful Labor Activist Arsham Rezaee Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel

Peaceful Labor Activist Arsham Rezaee Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel

March 28, 2019

Rezaee Struggling to Financially Support Family from Prison Labor activist Mahmoud Arsham Rezaee has been issued a lengthy prison sentence at a trial that unlawfully took place without prior notice or the presence of his lawyer, his mother Keshvar Rezaee informed the Center for Human Rights in ...

Peaceful Labor Rights Activist Sentenced to Prison in 10-Minute Trial

Peaceful Labor Rights Activist Sentenced to Prison in 10-Minute Trial

March 21, 2019

Labor activist As’ad Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been sentenced to five years in prison without due process. Another Workers' Rights Activist Appeals Flogging Sentence Labor rights activist As’ad Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been sentenced to six years in prison (of which he must ...

Qoliyan and Bakhshi Held Without Bail or Access to Lawyers for Almost Two Months, Transferred to Prisons in Ahvaz

Qoliyan and Bakhshi Held Without Bail or Access to Lawyers for Almost Two Months, Transferred to Prisons in Ahvaz

March 14, 2019

Despite the apparent end of investigations by judicial authorities against labor activist Esmail Bakhshi and freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, the two have not been offered bail and continue to be held, without access to a ...

Thousands of Iranian Teachers Launch Third Strike Demanding Fair Pay, Universal Education

Thousands of Iranian Teachers Launch Third Strike Demanding Fair Pay, Universal Education

March 8, 2019

Education Minister Claims Strikers Wrongly Teaching Students How to Protest Thousands of teachers went on strike throughout Iran for the third time in less than a year March 3-5, 2019, to demand fair pay, the release of their ...

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

New UN Report on Iran Notes Decline in Executions, Ongoing Executions of Child Offenders

February 27, 2019

Javaid Rehman was appointed as the third Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in ...

Intelligence Ministry Denies Labor Activists Qoliyan and Bakhshi Medical Treatment

Intelligence Ministry Denies Labor Activists Qoliyan and Bakhshi Medical Treatment

February 26, 2019

Supporters of Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan hold up a sign demanding that the labor activists be released. Detainees Remain in Custody of Same ...

Intelligence Ministry Threatens Families of Labor Activists Bakhsi, Qoliyan With Prosecution

Intelligence Ministry Threatens Families of Labor Activists Bakhsi, Qoliyan With Prosecution

February 22, 2019

The Intelligence Ministry in the city of Shush, southwestern Iran, summoned the families of detained labor activist Esmail Bakhshi and freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan and warned them not to speak to the media, the worker’s union of the nearby Haft ...

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