Imprisoned Teacher’s Rights Activist: I am Legally Entitled to a Public Trial
Iranian labor rights activist Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi. An Iranian imprisoned teachers’ rights activist is pledging to go on hunger strike until his nine-year ...
Labor Rights
Iranian Labor Activist Peacefully Rejects New Prison Sentence
Labor activist Ali Nejati is refusing to serve a six-month prison sentence for engaging in lawful protests against one of Iran’s largest agro-industrial companies near the city of Shush in Khuzestan Province. ...
Iranian Union Considers Mass Strike as Imprisoned Labor Activist’s Condition Deteriorates
An Iranian union is considering a mass strike to protest a prominent labor activist being returned to prison to serve an additional year behind bars two years after he ...
Authorities Ignore Starving Political Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison, Restrict Family Visitations
Former Political Prisoners Implore Judiciary To Consider Prisoners’ Demands Forty days after more than 15 political prisoners went on a mass hunger strike in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr ...
Protest Against Killing of Couriers in Iran’s Kurdistan Province Attacked by Security Forces
Local MP Calls for Investigation A protest was met with tear gas in the city of Baneh in northwestern Iran on September 5, 2017, after people gathered in front of the local governor’s ...
Imprisoned Labor Activist on Hunger Strike Needs Hospital Treatment, Wife Says
Reza Shahabi and his wife in their home grocery store. Three weeks on hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr ...
Education Ministry Withdraws Discriminatory Hiring Guideline
The Iranian Education Ministry is revising its hiring guideline which disqualifies or discourages several classes of citizens from being employed as teachers. The guideline...
Iranian Glue Company’s Rules Attract Scrutiny for Possible Rights Violations
HL Glue company CEO Khalil Nazari surrounded by factory workers at his birthday party ...
Labor Activist Forced to Stay Behind Bars Until December 2018 Despite Completing Sentence
Update: With assurances from a senior official, labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on September 27, 2017, after nearly two months of refusing food. “Reza announced the end of his hunger strike ...
Workers at Iranian Sugarcane Company Summoned to Court After Protesting Unpaid Wages
Workers of the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company protest for their unpaid wages. Fifty-three workers of Iran’s Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro Industrial Company ...
Prominent Labor Activist Returns to Prison After Medical Leave “Unapproved” by Prosecutor
Almost three years after he was released, prominent labor activist Reza Shahabi has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence to prevent the judiciary from seizing the home of ...
Labor Activist Describes Torture and Inhumane Living Conditions at Iran’s Largest Prison
Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) Teachers rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi witnessed torture and inhumane conditions including overcrowding, unsanitary living spaces, ...
Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Detained Without Bail After Protesting Unpaid Wages and Benefits
Eight workers at one of Iran’s largest and oldest agricultural companies remain detained without bail after being arrested for demanding unpaid wages and benefits. At least 13 workers who ...
1,600 Teachers Demand Iran’s Judiciary Free Imprisoned Rights Activist
More than one thousand Iranian teachers have issued a statement calling for the release of a teacher imprisoned for peacefully advocating for teachers’ rights in the southern port city of Bushehr. “We believe the authorities should ...
Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders
Teachers' rights activist Taher Ghaderzadeh's sign reads: "A teacher's place is in ...
Staged Visit by Foreign Ambassadors to Iran’s Evin Prison Condemned by Rights Activists
A member of the German embassy enters Evin Prison on a red carpet. Abusive Conditions and Political Prisoners Hidden from Visitors A state-choreographed ...
Iranian Nobel Laureate Blasts Khamenei’s “Fire at Will” Policy Against Domestic Opponents
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recent declaration that his supporters should “fire at will” against presumed enemies of the state is an established policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told ...
Prominent Civil Rights Activists Urge Iran’s Parliament to Ban Use of Deadly Force Against Border Couriers
The killing, by border guards, of another kulbar—the Persian word for the border-crossing couriers who transport illegally imported goods into Iran—has prompted 250 Iranian civil rights ...
Iran’s Judiciary Prevents Top Labor Activists From Attending International Conference
A travel ban imposed by the Iranian judiciary has prevented prominent labor rights activists Reza Shahabi and Davoud Razavi from attending an ...
Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Activist Returned to Evin Prison After Three-Day Hospitalization
Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi, who has been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, was transported from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran on June 3, 2017 ...
Rouhani: Delivering Human Rights After the Election
Hassan Rouhani was re-elected as president of Iran in May 2017 largely on the basis of his support for human rights and Iranians’ perceptions that he would do more to improve civil and political rights in the country than his rivals. He should now deliver on his pledges. ...
More Than 15,000 Petition Iran’s Judiciary to Free Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist
An online petition signed by more than 15,000 people calling for the release of imprisoned teachers’ rights leader Esmail Abdi has been delivered to the judiciary and the office of the president ...
Activists Acquitted of National Security Charges for Peaceful Defense of Labor Rights
Trade union activists Jafar Azimzadeh and Shapour Ehsani-Rad have been acquitted of the charge of ‘acting against national security’ for peacefully advocating for labor rights ...
Iran Election Update | May 19, 2017 (Live Updates)
Find out the latest news about Iran’s May 2017 elections by following CHRI’s live updates ...