NCRI – Nearly, 4,000 teachers in Kurdish cities of Marivan, Sanandaj, and Saqqez gathered outside the local office of Ministry of Education in provincial capital of Sanandaj, according to the Resistance sources in Iran.
On May 2, the striking teachers listed their demands including release of all their detained colleagues, banning police presence in schools, permitting the teacher unions, allowing teachers to elect their representatives and school superintendents.
The teachers listened to a statement at the demonstration which called for freedom of all detained teachers, giving the voting rights to their representatives at the Supreme Council of Education, changing the standards for electing the teacher of the year, establishment of teachers’ bank, abrogation of all restriction on teachers’ assemblies by the State Security Forces (SSF), allowing teachers freedom of speech, and merging Ministry of Higher Education with Ministry of Education.
The participants called on teachers to assemble outside the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) on May 8.
