The temporary detention of four members of the Kurdistan-Divandarreh Teachers’ Union named Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiva Ghoreishi, was extended on 3 August for another month.
These Kurdish teachers are still kept in the solitary cell of the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, without the right to have a lawyer or family visits.
The Coordinating Council of Iran’s Educators’ Union has announced that these four activist teachers have been accused of “propaganda against the regime” and are under pressure from security interrogators to make forced confessions in this regard.
Security forces arrested these teachers on 15 June during a protest rally of teachers in front of the Ministry of Education in Sanandaj.
After their arrests, the four teachers’ union activists were taken to the detention centre of the intelligence ministry in Sanandaj.
During this period, despite the follow-ups by the families of these activists in the court and security institutions, as well as their gatherings in front of the city court, no clear answer has been given to the families and colleagues of the detainees regarding the reason for their arrests and their conditions.
