Iran Crushes Teachers' Pay Protest
March 17, 2007
The Guardian
Robert Tait in Tehran
The that signals their determination to break a pay revolt. authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons as they tried to gather outside Iran's parliament and education ministry and herded them into police vans and buses before transporting them to detention centres across Tehran.
Around 150 of those arrested in Wednesday's protest are still in custody, with the ringleaders believed to be in the capital's notorious Evin prison. Others were released after signing a commitment not to participate in "illegal" demonstrations.
The clampdown follows recent rallies outside parliament, which drew up to 10,000 demonstrators, many of whom displayed banners criticising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government as part of their campaign for higher pay. An average university-educated secondary-school teacher earns £160-180 a month, below the poverty line and much less than workers in other government sectors.
Last week, police arrested six teachers' union leaders in an unsuccessful attempt to stop a gathering that coincided with a planned women's rights demonstration.
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Aryamehr'e Gerami,
Har roozat Norooz.
Noroozat Pirooz.
Shaad zee
Mehr afzoon
this is too sad. I hope these poor teachers don't have to spend the New Years Eve in prison and wihout their families.
This is alos very disturbing :
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7040
our dear hero shirin ebadi is there to defend the teachers rights. so she would do a great job.
ebadi a true iranian hero
dorood bar shirin ebadi
she is a hero for iran
LOL the brainwashed supporters of the Islamic Republic and their various characters like Ayatollah Shirin Ebadi are appearing =)
Sorry but what has Ayatollah Ebadi done to the Iranian Nation but claim oxymorons like "Islam has no problem with Democracy" and "women are much better of in the Islamic Republic than they were before the Islamic Revolution"!
That you guys don't have shame...
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