Sunday, March 1, 2015

DEVELOPINGSTORY: The chant of "Political prisoners must be freed" echoed inTehran

Tehran teachers demonstration

While more than 6,000 teachers took part in a gathering in front of the parliament in Tehran to join and express solidarity with the nationwide teachers’ demonstration, more than 20 other cities in the country were shaken by the chants of 'freedom for political prisoners' and 'freedom for imprisoned teachers.'
The slogans in the teachers’ demonstration included:
'Free teachers activists',
'Free political prisoners',

Abbas Yazdanpanah

A UAE court has sentenced six Iranians, three of them in absentia, to life imprisonment for kidnapping an Iranian-British businessman who went missing in Dubai in 2013, according to local media in Dubai.

DEVELOPING STORY: Teachers’ protest acrossIranian cities

Protest of Iranian teachers across the country

Teachers’ protests across Iranian cities started this morning. Thousands of teachers and members of educational establishments in different cities across the country took to the streets today, Sunday demanding their economic and working rights.