Education International has called on its member organisations to take swift action to firmly protest the unwarranted six-year jail sentence imposed on Esmail Abdi, a leader of the Tehran Teacher Trade Association: https://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/4161 Education International (EI) has informed the authorities...

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The NASUWT has condemned the jailing of the General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA-Tehran) on unjust and spurious grounds. Mr Esmail Abdi has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges including “assembling and colluding against...

Esmail Abdi, the General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA-Tehran) was sentenced to six year of incarceration by verdict of the Branch 36 of Appeals Court of Tehran. This sentence which was announced on 7 October 2016 is...

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Racial tensions are once again rocking America, and “Black Lives Matter” and other progressive activists and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the US are on the streets throughout the country denouncing police violence and demanding justice. These mass...

Jafar Azimzadeh Released on Furlough (updates as of July 1, 2016) Jafar Azimzadeh was released from Sina Hospital at 8 pm, Thursday, June 30, 2016, after 63 days of hunger strike. There were great fears that the authorities had a...

#AmnestyInternational Urgent Action: Jailed trade unionist’s health and life at risk: #JafarAzimzadeh  https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/4358/2016/en/ … UA: 152/16 Index: MDE 13/4358/2016 Iran Date: 29 June 2016URGENT ACTIONJAILED TRADE UNIONIST’S HEALTH AND LIFE AT RISKIranian trade unionist Jafar Azimzadeh, the Chair of the Free...

Mr. Hassan Rouhani  President Islamic Republic of Iran Email: [email protected]; [email protected]   IndustriALL Global Union calls on Government of Iran to intervene to end flogging of mineworkers and enforce full respect of fundamental human rights and labor rights Dear President Hassan...