Over 200 teachers from across Iran arrested in Tehran protest

Over 200 teachers from across Iran arrested in Tehran protest

ranian teachers from nearly two dozen cities travelled to Tehran to joint protest


NCRI -
The number of those arrested in Wednesday’s teachers’ protest gathering
in Tehran has reached 200. Many of those arrested are teachers from
other cities such as Mashhad, Mahabad, Yazd, Kohkilouyeh, Marivan,
Delfan Khomain, Isfahan, Kerman, Shahreza, Anzali, Sabzevar, Robat
Karim, Pakdasht, Sanandaj, Qazvin, Shahr-e Kord, Karaj, Hamedan,
Oromieh, Sari,… who had come to Tehran and were arrested in the attacks
by the suppressive forces.


Hashem Khastar, speaker of teachers’ union in Khorassan, is among
those arrested and taken to the detention center in Vozara Street. He
was a political prisoner in the 1980s and has been arrested numerous
times since for defending teachers’ rights.

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