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Tag : 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 ...

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. ...

July 24, 2017

Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders

Teachers' rights activist Taher Ghaderzadeh's sign reads: "A teacher's place is in a classroom, not ...

June 6, 2017

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Activist Returned to Evin Prison After Three-Day Hospitalization

Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi, who has been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, was transported from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran on June 3, 2017 ...

May 25, 2017

More Than 15,000 Petition Iran’s Judiciary to Free Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist

An online petition signed by more than 15,000 people calling for the release of imprisoned teachers’ rights leader Esmail Abdi has been delivered to the judiciary and the office of the president ...

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 pressure and vertigo after nearly two weeks on hunger strike in ...

March 14, 2017

Teachers Hold Rallies Across Iran for Labor and Education Rights

Teachers held rallies in several Iranian cities in March 2017 demanding livable wages and improved student resources. ...

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, he was charged with “insulting the supreme leader” and now ...

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 strike.  Beheshti Langroudi was sent ...

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 released on April 29, 2016. His lawyer, ...

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 during a trial that lasted less than eight minutes, has ...

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 “propaganda against the state” and “collusion against national security” by ...

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