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 celebrations. The summoned activists include Sosan Razani, Hajar Saeidi, Mozaffar Salehnia, Sharif Saedpanah, Kamran Sakhtemangar, Ramin Karimi, Rebwar Abdollahi, Towfigh Mahmoudi, Reza Amjadi, and Habibollah Karimi. Security interrogators questioned the activists for several hours and threatened them not...

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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 Workers' Day and on the eve of the day that has been named Teacher's Day in Iran, numerous protest rallies were held in various cities of Iran by labour activists and teachers. The Coordination Council of Iranian Cultural Associations had...

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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 Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 28-29 April. Activists Mozaffar Salehnia, Sheis Amani, Towfigh Mahmoudi, and Armin Sharifeh were interrogated for several hours and released afterwards. A labour activist in the city of Sanandaj...

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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, four days after the arrest of the activists. Salehi and Esmaeili were arrested in Saqqez on 16 May for their social media activities on International Workers’ Day and were accused of “propaganda against the state”. “Mahmoud...

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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 threatening them not to attend any non-governmental event on this day.  "For several days now, as in previous years, security agencies have made threatening calls to at least 10 labour activists.” A labour activist in Sanandaj told...

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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 Prosecution and Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj had previously issued a bail of 500 million Tomans for his release. However, upon contesting this verdict, the amount of the bail of this activist was...

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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, Isaac Rouhi was arrested by security forces when he intended to accompany his family to the International Labour Day at Naysar town in Sanandaj. The agents then took the family back to their...

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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 Service for interrogation. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Friday, June 15, a construction worker and member of the Free Trade Union of Iran Laborers called Khalil Karimi...

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