Iran Reports

URGENT ACTION FOUR WOMEN JAILED FOR ATTENDING MAY DAY RALLY Iranian labour rights activists Anisha Assadolahi, Atefeh Rangriz and Neda Naji and Iranian journalist Marzieh Amiri have been arbitrarily detained, without access to a lawyer, for weeks and accused of...

Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company: Condemn continued detention and trial of May Day arrestees July 5, 2019 - More than two months after the brutal crackdown of the peaceful May Day rally in front of Iranian...

Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company: Updates on May Day arrestees Reza Shahabi released; Hassan Saeidi, Seyed Rasoul Taleb Moghadam & four others still incarcerated May 7, 2019: Over 45 people were arrested on May 1st, 2019...

LO Norway has sent another protest letter to authorities in Iran calling for the immediate release of unionists and May Day detainees. LO Norway challenges the Iranian government for using the so-called "national security laws" to justify its suppression of...

This page might be updated as more confirmed updates are received. Over 40 people were arrested at the May Day rally in Tehran. Currently a number of arrestees have been released.  As of May 4, 2019, Five bus workers' union...

May 3, 2019 His Excellency Hassan Rouhani President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Email: [email protected] Your Excellency, On behalf of the NASUWT, the UK teachers’ union, I write to protest in the strongest possible terms about the arrest and...

The syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company calls for urgent action: National TV’s show "Burnt Plot" is a pretext to crush workers' demands and protests in Iran On Saturday, January 19, 2019, the news section of national...

The Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate reported yesterday that at 11:55 PM, Sunday, January 20th, 2019 a caravan of fifteen patrol cars full of armed security and intelligence forces raided Esmaeil Bakhshi’s house and have taken him away to an undisclosed location....

In this issue: A summary review of the strikes by sugarcane and steel workers and what are at stake: Fight back against privatization and for workers’ self-management of their factories: Government crackdown and attempts to impose Islamic Labour Councils: The...

Esmaeil Bakhshi, Iran’s prominent labour activist: “I was tortured, kicked and beaten to the brink of death without reason or any words to the extent that I could not move for 72 hours in my cell”.   An open letter...