NCRI – Yesterday, the State Security Forces (SSF) raided the weekly meeting of teachers and arrested forty-five participants there in the western city of Hamadan, the state-run website Aftab reported.
Arrest of teachers comes at the time when the Iranian teachers have call for a sit-in at schools on 16 and 17 of April.
Teachers have declared that if their demands are not met by May 2 which coincides with international “Teachers Day,” they will first demonstrate out side of their local offices of Ministry of Education in various cities across the nation and eventually they will have a gathering out side the Majlis (the regime’s parliament).
Ms. Soheila Sadeq, Chair of the Education Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reiterated that the deprived teachers’ legitimate demands are met by more suppressive measures from the inhuman Iranian regime and called on all international teachers’ unions to condemn the suppressive measures against the Iranian teachers. She called on Iranian students and youths to support the demands of uprising teachers.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 9, 2007
