Jailed Teacher, Abdolreza Ghanbari, was released from prison on March 17, 2016 Ali Akbar Baghani released on bail but is exiled to the City of Zabol   Jailed Teacher, Abdolreza Ghanbari, was released from prison on March 17, 2016. Mr....

March 8, 2016 - Mahmoud Beheshti Langroodi, a spokesman for the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association, Mohammad Reza Niknejad and Mehdi Bohlooli, both former board members of the ITTA Tehran, received their sentences on March 7, 2016 by Judge Moghiseh in...

Background information: In December 2014 Reza Shahabi was summoned to Evin prison's prosecutor office, while he was still on a medical leave of absence from his prison sentence. He was interrogated about a protest by prisoners in section 350 of...

Source: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/3880 Renewed efforts are underway to free Esmail Abdi after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court officially sentenced the teacher unionist to six years in prison for alleged crimes related to trade union activism. The February 22 verdict against a leader...

 As reported last week, some of the workers that had been arrested at the Khatoon Abad Copper Mines earlier this month had been released. This week, all the other workers have also been released. While free, it is probable that...

Esmail Abdi, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA-Tehran) was sentenced to six years in prison by branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, presided over by the notorious Judge Salavati. The verdict was announced on...

Source: http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/4764 Fierce repression of worker protest in Iran has not abated following the easing of sanctions. On February 5, a local news agency in Golestan Province proudly reported on a mock training exercise by the Basij, a nation-wide paramilitary...

For immediate release: Vahed Syndicate’s Davoud Razavi sentenced to five years in prison Vahed Syndicate’s Vice-President, Ebrahim Madadi, will go on trial on February 22, 2016   February 17, 2016 - Davoud Razavi, a member of the board of directors...

  February 15, 2016: According to confirmed reported in Iran, the lawyer for the 28 detained Khatoon Abad copper mine workers announced today that all 28 arrested Khatoon Abad workers have now released on bail. Each of these workers had...

 5 detainees remain behind bars February 14, 2016: According to various news agencies in Iran and abroad, the lawyer for the 28 detained Khatoon Abad copper mine workers announced on Saturday February 13, 2016 that 23 of these workers have...