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...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
October 30, 2015
Revolutionary Guards Treat Protesting Teachers as Agitators, Lawyer Says
Peyman Haj-Mahmoud Attar, the lawyer for the Teachers ...
September 24, 2015
Imprisoned Teacher Sentenced to Three More Years in Prison after Completing Six
Teachers’ rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi Teachers’ rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi, who was near the end ...
February 2, 2015
Teachers Protest Wages That Are Below the Official Poverty Line
Strikes continue in a number of Iranian cities Teachers in the cities of Marivan, Baneh, and Shahrood, who have refused to attend class since January 20 ...
April 30, 2010
Clampdown on Teachers and Labor Activists
(30 April 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today urged Iranian authorities to respect the rights of trade union activists and teachers to participate in International Workers Day (1 May) and National Teachers Day (2 May) observations, and expressed deep concern about ...