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...
Tag : Teachers Association of Iran
November 21, 2018
Second Peaceful Teachers’ Strike in Iran Met With Arrests, Summons and Threats
Iranian security and judicial authorities responded to the second round of peaceful teachers' rights strikes by arresting and summoning ...
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 ...
October 26, 2018
Iran Authorities Won’t Explain Why Teachers’ Rights Activist is Being Held Incommunicado in Mental Hospital
Iranian authorities have refused to allow the family of a teacher’s rights activist any access to him or provide them with any information ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
September 27, 2017
Iranian Teachers’ Rights Activist Facing 14 Years Behind Bars for Peaceful Advocacy
Imprisoned teacher’s rights activist Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi is facing 14 years behind bars in Iran after the confirmation of ...
July 24, 2017
Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders
Teachers' rights activist ...
May 13, 2017
Hunger-Striking Imprisoned Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist in Poor Health
Esmail Abdi, the imprisoned former leader of Iran’s largest teachers’ union, is suffering from a severe drop in blood ...
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, ...
May 4, 2016
Teacher’s Union Leader Conditionally Released on Parole
Teacher’s rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi, who was imprisoned in Iran for six years for his peaceful labor activism, was conditionally ...
May 2, 2016
Imprisoned Teacher Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Years Behind Bars for Peaceful Union Activities
Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, a teacher and activist who was sentenced to five years in prison and an additional four-year suspended prison sentence ...
February 24, 2016
Iranian Teacher’s Union Leader Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
The secretary general of the Teachers Association of Iran, Esmail Abdi, has been sentenced to six years in prison for ...
January 15, 2016
Teachers Union Chief to Go on Trial for Peaceful Labor Activities
No Access to Counsel or Family Visits during 7-Month “Temporary Detention” After nearly seven months of “temporary detention” without access to his lawyer ...
October 30, 2015
Revolutionary Guards Treat Protesting Teachers as Agitators, Lawyer Says
Peyman Haj-Mahmoud Attar, the lawyer for the Teachers Association ...