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Tag : international workers’ day

May 2, 2022

Dozens of Teachers Arrested in Iran During Workers’ Day Protests

Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ day, between April 28 and May 1, 2022, according to the Iranian Teachers Trade Unions Coordination Council (ITTUCC). Multiple activists from ...

April 29, 2022

Iran’s Government Should Respect—Not Crush—Workers’ Rights

On the eve of International Workers’ Day, state security forces in Iran have been summoning, arresting and harassing activists to prevent them from protesting on May Day ...

June 7, 2019

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

*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 ...

May 1, 2019

Crackdown in Iran: Several Arrested at May Day Protests

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. ...

May 1, 2019

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

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 ...

January 10, 2019

Labor Activist’s Revelation of Torture During Detention Prompts Wave of Reports of Abuse in Iran’s Prisons

Esmail Bakhshi’s lawyer says her client is under intense pressure to retract statements about his torture Labor activist Esmail Bakhshi’s public letter in which he revealed his torture in an Intelligence Ministry ...

December 3, 2018

Detained Protester Reportedly Tortured as Iranian Sugar Mill Workers Demand Unpaid Wages

Detained labor activist Esmail Bakhshi was hospitalized after being tortured under interrogation, according to Iranian labor sources. Bakhshi’s colleague Ali Nejati was also arrested by security forces on the 25th day ...

November 19, 2018

Steel and Sugarcane Workers Rally in Ahvaz to Demand Unpaid Wages

Workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (NSIG) in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, held rallies November 10-14, 2018, demanding two months of unpaid salaries and in protest against the unannounced ...

October 31, 2018

15 HEPCO Workers in Iran Issued Suspended Prison, Lashing Sentences For Demanding Unpaid Wages

Fifteen staff members of the HEPCO manufacturing company in Markazi Province, Iran, have been issued suspended prison and lashing sentences for striking for unpaid wages, reported the state-funded Iranian ...

August 22, 2018

Unpaid Workers Arrested at Protests Against Iran’s Biggest Sugar Production Company

After security forces attempted to violently repress protests at the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company in southeastern Iran, at least five workers were charged with national security crimes, the Center for ...

September 15, 2015

Imprisoned Labor Activist Dies of Stroke after Being Denied Medical Care

Shahrokh Zamani, Labor activist Authorities Routinely Refuse Medical Treatment to Political Prisoners September 16, 2015—Labor activist Shahrokh Zamani died of a stroke on September 13, 2015, at Rajaee ...

May 8, 2009

Release All Activists Detained on May Day

(8 May 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of all labor activists and six members of the One Million Signatures Campaign still in detention after their violent arrest on 1 May as they gathered to peacefully celebrate ...

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