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Tag : Teachers in Iran

October 24, 2022

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown on protests that has ...

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 ...

February 3, 2022

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on the country's burgeoning teachers' rights movement. A grassroots teachers’ rights movement is gaining steam in ...

September 16, 2021

Teachers in Iran Continue Protests Under New Raisi Government

With Iran’s new academic year, beginning on September 23, 2021, just around the corner, teachers have been protesting in front of Parliament and the Plan and Budget Organization in Tehran to voice anger and frustration over ...

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 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 about his condition or case after he was arrested and admitted ...

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 ...

October 8, 2018

These Four Educators Were Behind Bars in Iran on World Teachers’ Day 2018

Four teachers are currently behind bars in Iranian prisons for engaging in peaceful trade union activities, according to Rassoul Bodaghi, a formerly imprisoned labor activist and senior member of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA). Speaking to ...

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. ...

July 21, 2018

Detained Teachers’ Rights Activist Denied Months of Salary Due to “Fault of Others”

Detained teachers’ rights activist Mohammad Habibi is being denied his monthly state salary despite not being convicted of any crime, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has been informed. ...

March 14, 2018

Revolutionary Guards Violently Arrest Teachers’ Rights Activist in Front of High School Students

29 Teachers Advocate For Habibi’s Freedom Teacher and trade union activist Mohammad Habibi was beaten and arrested by agents of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in front of his students at Andisheh Technical High School in the ...

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