Three Kurdish teachers’ union activists in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, are facing judicial proceedings after the local prosecutor accused them of “disruption of public order”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
Taher Ghaderzadeh, Soleyman Abdi and Ahmad Ghaderi, members of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union in Saqqez, were recently summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence office in the city, where they were interrogated by security officials.
Following the interrogations, the Saqqez prosecutor filed a complaint against the three activists, leading to the opening of a case at Branch Two of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez on charges of “disrupting of public order”.
The three teachers had previously faced punitive measures during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom protests, including the downgrading of their job classifications.
One of the defendants, Abdi, has a long history of pressure linked to his union activities. In past years, he has been repeatedly summoned and detained by security agencies and sentenced to prison by the courts.
In July this year, Abdi was sentenced by the Primary Board for the Investigation of Administrative Violations of Government Employees in Kurdistan Province to compulsory retirement, along with a reduction of two job grades based on his years of service. That decision has recently been fully upheld by the Administrative Justice Court.
