Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Teachers have staged sit-ins at schools across Kurdistan on March 3, 4 and 5 following the protests of the teachers and call of Coordinating Council of Teachers Syndicates in Iran (CCTSI). In a conversation with KHRN, one of the teachers participating in this sit-in has reported massive participation of teachers in various cities of Kurdistan and said that the sit-ins...

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit summoned a teacher from Diwandareh and transferred him to the IRGC detention centre in Sanandaj. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the IRGC Intelligence Unit in Diwandareh has been summoned and transferred a teacher named Hamed Nargesi on Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018 to the IRGC Detention Centre in Sanandaj. The teacher had been summoned by...

Following the nationwide sit-in on Oct 15 and 16, the Saqqez prosecutor suspended the prosecution for six teachers accused of disturbing public order. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Nov 5, 2018, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Saqqez Revolutionary Court suspended the prosecution of six teachers known as Tahir Ghaderzadeh, Suleiman Abdi, Seyyed Ali Hosseini, Ahmad Ghaderi, Hamid Yazdani...