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Tag : Iranian Teachers’ Union

March 8, 2019

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

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 ...

November 6, 2018

Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization Cannot Become New Means of Silencing Dissent in Iran

*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 ...

October 29, 2018

Why Was Teachers’ Rights Activist Hashem Khastar Sent to a Mental Hospital With No Signs of Illness?

Khastar Was Tending to a Garden When “Plainclothes” Agents Arrested Him *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 ...

October 19, 2018

Four Teachers Detained in Iran and Several Others Summoned to Court After Peaceful Sit-In

Security Forces Hijack Teachers’ Union Telegram Channel Four teachers who participated in a peaceful sit-in for teachers’ and education rights in Iran this week remain behind bars five days after they were arrested. The Iranian ...

October 17, 2018

Teachers Strike Across Iran Demanding Education Reformation

 Classes were cancelled in several ...

August 2, 2018

Imprisoned Teacher Denied Hospitalization Amid Two-Month Hunger Strike

After refusing food for nearly two months, imprisoned teacher Rouhollah Mardani’s health is deteriorating in Evin Prison in Tehran, a relative told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on August 1, 2018. ...

April 12, 2018

Teachers’ Rights Advocate Writes Scathing Letter From Prison on Revolutionary Iran’s Failed Promises

Esmail Abdi Warns Judiciary of the Consequences of Its “Illegal Rulings” Ahead of Hunger Strike Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi has written a letter from Evin Prison strongly criticizing Iranian officials’ for ...

October 9, 2017

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Advocate Esmail Abdi Denied Sentence Review

Esmail Abdi is serving a six-year prison sentence for peacefully advocating for teachers' rights in Iran. Iran’s judiciary has denied a request for a review of the heavy prison sentence issued against ...

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