Workers

Iran government increasingly violating labour rights, says Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch has accused the Iranian government of increasingly violating workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association.

UN: Iran steps up arrests, torture, executions

Iran has stepped up executions of prisoners including juveniles as well as arrests of dissidents who are often tortured in jail, sometimes to death, the United Nations reported on Thursday.

Children illegally counted in inflated Iranian labour statistics

In the last series of Iranian labor force statistics, the Statistical Center of Iran changed two fundamental definitions to artificially lower the official unemployment rate: that of “work,” and that of “employment.”

'Allow my husband medical furlough,' asks union activist Reza Shahabi’s wife

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Robabeh Rezaei, the wife of imprisoned labor activist Reza Shahabi, spoke about her husband’s hunger strike in protest of the prison authorities’ refusal to allow him medical treatment outside.

One-year jail term for senior teacher activist Ali Akbar Baghani

A senior member of the Teacher's Union has been sentenced to a year in prison a court in Tehran.

Labour activist Reza Shahabi goes on hunger strike following mistreatment

Imprisoned labour activist Reza Shahabi has once again gone on hunger strike to protest his maltreatment in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, opposition reports suggest.

Father of labour activist arrested in Shiraz

Iranian security forces have arrested the father of labour activist Seyed Hadi Daneshyar.

Labour activist Pedram Abdollahi begins serving out 19-month sentence

Another Iranian labour activist has been detained.

Sattar Beheshti’s family ask for protection to come forward with lawsuit against torture culprits

A source close to the family of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger whose family was informed of his death in custody on November 6, told the International Campaign that “If we know that we are supported by an organization and that our lives are safe and that they will not take us like Sattar to beat, abuse, and torture psychologically and physically…we would file a lawsuit against those who caused this in

Opposition council slams Sattar Beheshti 'murder'

'Blogger was tortured to death,' testify Evin Prison inmates

Forty-one political prisoners held at Evin Prison’s Ward 350 have issued a joint statement testifying that dissident blogger Sattar Beheshti was tortured to death while in custody.