International Workers' Day Archives - KHRN

May 2, 2023

Security services threaten activists ahead of Labour Day

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Police Intelligence Organisation summoned at least ten labour activists in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 30 April and threatened them not to organise any

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International Workers’ Day: Several Kurdish labour activists, teachers detained

Iranian security forces detained several Kurdish labour activists and teachers before and during International Workers' Day across Iranian Kurdistan. On 1 May 2022, coinciding with International

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Iran: Kurdish labour activists interrogated by intelligence agencies

Following the increasing pressures on labour activists on the eve of International Workers' Day, at least four Kurdish activists were summoned by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence

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May 20, 2021

Detained prominent labour activists’ case referred to court of Saqqez

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez has referred the case of the prominent labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Esmaeili to the Islamic Revolutionary Court of the city,

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May 1, 2020

Kurdish Labour Activists Summoned and Threatened on the eve of International Workers’ Day

On the eve of International Workers' Day, Sanandaj Intelligence Office and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) telephone summoned a number of Kurdish labour activists in addition to

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June 3, 2019

Kurdish Labourer Released on Bail

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish Labourer, 'Isaac Rouhi" has been released on a bail of 100 million Tomans from Sanandaj Central Prison after 32 days of arrest. Branch 2 of the Public

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May 16, 2019

Heavy Bail Issued for a Kurdish Worker

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A worker, 'Isaac Rouhi" was returned to the Sanandaj Central Prison quarantine due to his inability to secure his 500 million Tomans bail. "On May 1, 2019,

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June 22, 2018

Continued Summons and Interrogations of Labor Activists in Kurdistan

Following a new wave of summoning and interrogating Kurdish labor activists, a member of the Free Trade Union of Iran Laborers has been summoned to the news headquarters of the Sanandaj Intelligence

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