Iran news in brief, January 10, 2019
1- Protest Gathering of Teachers in Kermanshah and Isfahan
January 10, 2019. The teachers and educators of Kermanshah – western Iran. Staged a protest gathering against two months non-payment of their salaries and wages in front of the education office of the city. Also on Wednesday January 9th teachers and educators of Isfahan held a protest gathering against the low salaries and not receiving any response to their other demands
2- Strike and protest gathering of sugarcane workers in Ahvaz
On Thursday January 10th the workers of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company started a strike against non-payment of their salaries, workers had already called for a widespread strike if their demands were not met and their salaries were not payed.
3- Human Rights Defenders Increasingly Suppressed in Iran – UNSR
The United Nations released the World Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders by Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.
The report focuses on suppression of human rights defenders in Iran and emphasizes that such crackdown in Iran has become more intense in 2018.
The report emphasized that “since December 2017, the situation for human rights defenders in Iran has become significantly more dangerous, as scores of protestors were arrested, detained, charged and even killed in anti-government protests which swept across the country.”
The report also added that Iran “has also intensified its crackdown on women defenders in general, and particularly for their peaceful protests in removing their hijabs.”
4- Protesters Battered, Detained Says Opposition Group
A group of protesters who rallied outside Tehran University on Monday, December 31, 2018, have been severely battered by Iran regime’s security forces and several arrested.
The media reported, all detainees were placed behind bars in political blocks of Tehran's notorious Evin prison. The reports do not specify the number of those arrested.
Women among detainees, including a 65-year-old lady, are so critically beaten up that one of them cannot stand on her feet, and another has lost her balance because of a head injury, media reported.
The protesters were assembled outside Tehran University to protest a bus crash, killing ten.
The bus hired by one of the largest universities in Iran, Islamic Azad University, was carrying 30 students along a mountainous road within the university's Science and Research branch campus when on December 25, 2018, it drove off the road and hit a concrete pole.
5- Iran Regime Confirms It Arrested U.S. Navy Veteran on Undisclosed Charges
US Navy veteran Michael White is in Iranian custody, the Iranian Regime's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, confirming claims made by White's mother a day earlier.
ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said: "Michael White was arrested in the city of Mashhad a while ago, and within a few days after his arrest the US government was informed of the arrest through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran,".
6- Iran Regime's State TV Airs Unseen Video of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Iranian Regime State TV has aired previously unseen footage of what appears to be the arrest of jailed Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran in April 2016.
The approximately minute-long video, which has been edited, shows Zaghari-Ratcliffe being pulled aside by someone off camera at an airport and questioned.
In the line of questioning a man asks her about her travel intentions and informs her that there is a warrant for her arrest and that she is not permitted to leave the country.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British charity worker who remains jailed in Iran, was arrested at Tehran airport while attempting to return home to London after visiting family with her daughter Gabriella, who was then 22 months old in April 2016.
