Union Leader Receives Unofficial Warning To Return to Prison or Lose $140,000 Bail
Labor rights activist Jafar Azimzadeh has been told that he must return to Evin Prison in Tehran by January ...
Tag : Labor activist
November 3, 2016
Briefly Freed After Long Hunger Strikes, Three Teachers’ Rights Leaders Ordered Back to Prison
Prominent teachers’ rights leaders Jafar Azimzadeh, Esmail Abdi, and Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi—who ...
July 6, 2016
Ailing Political Prisoner Temporarily Released and Promised Retrial Shortly After Judiciary’s Harsh Refusal
Imprisoned labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh was temporarily released on “extendable furlough” on June 30, 2016 and promised ...
July 5, 2016
Teachers’ Rights Activist Could Face Three Years in Prison for Visiting Political Prisoner
A little over a week after teachers’ rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi was conditionally released from prison on April 29, 2016, ...
June 24, 2016
Labor Rights Activist in Critical Condition After 50-Day Hunger Strike
Prominent leftist scholar Noam Chomsky has called for Jafar Azimzadeh’s release Labor rights activist Jafar Azimzadeh is in critical ...
June 17, 2016
Iran’s Judiciary Evades Responsibility for Lashing Sentences against Striking Miners
After a month-long silence amid widespread condemnation of the decision by Iran’s Judiciary to intervene in a local labor dispute and punish 17 protesting mine workers with lashing ...
May 31, 2016
Iranian Gold Miners Lashed for Protesting Layoffs
Seventeen miners in northwestern Iran have been lashed on orders of the Judiciary after their employer sued them for protesting the firing of hundreds of ...
May 12, 2016
Imprisoned Teacher on Hunger Strike Sent Home After Hospitalization
The imprisoned teachers’ union activist, Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, has been released from hospital and sent home after a 22-day hunger ...
April 26, 2016
Bus Drivers’ Union Leader Awaiting Sentencing for Peaceful Labor Activism
Ebrahim Maddadi, a labor activist and leading member of Tehran’s bus drivers’ union, is awaiting sentencing after standing trial on April 16, 2016. Arrested 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 ...
May 22, 2015
For Iranian workers…
This Campaign video highlights the plight of workers in Iran. Some 70% of Iranian workers live below the official poverty line, 90% of Iranian laborers have temporary employment contracts offering no job security, and 19,974 workers lost their lives in ...