teachers union in Iran announced a two-day strike from Sunday to denounce the brutal crackdown on schools and the deaths of more than 20 children in the country’s ongoing protests.
The Islamic Republic was rocked by a wave of protests following her death on 16 September. Mahsa AminiA 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish descent, three days after she was arrested in Tehran by the vice police for violating the country’s strict dress code for women, which basically requires them to wear headscarves.
According to the NGO Human Rights in Iran (IHR)based in Oslo, the suppression of these demonstrations cost the lives of at least 122 people.
AT 23 kids get up who were killed by Iranian forces, while hundreds more were reportedly injured, arrested and tortured, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said on Monday.
Yesterday, Thursday, the Coordinating Council of Teachers’ Unions of Iran called for the mobilization of “two days of sit-ins on Sunday and Monday.” “We teachers will be present in schools but will not enter classrooms,” the union explained in a text posted on the Telegram platform.
Teachers accuse “security forces and (agents) of politicians of violent actions in schools and that they have killed several students and children.”
They also complain that a large number of their colleagues arrested have not been charged. “The authorities should know that the Iranian pedagogical community will not tolerate these atrocities and this tyranny,” the Coordinating Council of the Union of Teachers also noted, noting that it “supports the protest movement throughout the country.”
Finally, the teachers are demanding “the unconditional release of all detained students and their return to schools.”
Yesterday, Thursday, the union announced the death of one 15 year old Iranian teenagerwho died last week after being beaten by class forces during a raid on her school in Ardabilcity in northwestern Iran.
“One of the students, Asra Panahisadly died in the hospital and others were arrested,” the teachers said, adding that another child who attended the school fell into a coma after being beaten by class forces.
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Source: Kathimerini
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