NCRI - In the run-up to the international Labor Day, most of Iran's factories and workshops came under severe crackdown by the mullahs' regime.

Since the early days of the new Iranian year in the end of March, workers in dozens of Iranian factories and workshops have been suppressed by the government-run security apparatus. They were protesting over non-payment of their overdue salaries and benefits. 

Four prisoners hanged in Qum 
NCRI - The mullahs' inhuman regime hanged two prisoners identified only by their initials A.M. and K.N. in the central prison in holy city of Qum, reported the semiofficial news agency Fars on Wednesday.

Two prisoners identified as M.N. and Gh.A. were also hanged in the central city of Qum, reported Fars on 27 April.

NCRI - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, lauded once again the Sahand University students in Tabriz, provincial capital of Eastern Azerbaijan, in their second week of strikes and protests. She called on students and youths across the country, especially those in Azerbaijan province, to join in solidarity with Sahand University students.

She called on human rights organizations and student unions to support the demands of striking students and to condemn crackdown on university students and the regime's anti-student policies. 

In protest against killing of a number of people in an earlier violent anti-government demonstration in Iran's western city of Ivan-Gharb in Ilam province, local businesses and bazaar shut down yesterday and local residents stayed home. 

Following the bloody crackdown on a demonstration in Ivan-Gharb where a large number of people were killed and wounded, the special units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) imposed a martial law in the city and arrested a number of protesters.

NCRI- Students have gone on hunger strike and demonstration for the past five days at Sahand Technical University in the northern city of Tabriz.

They are protesting to hand picked school administrators by the government for the school.

NCRI - Students at Sahand University in Tabriz, provincial capital of Eastern Azerbaijan, northwest Iran, ended their second day of sit-in yesterday.

In a bid to end the students' protest, the regime has resorted to its usual methods of threats and intimidations. The university officials have been making threatening calls to the families of female students who play an active role in the sit-in to put pressure on their children for ending their protest. Students have been staying in the main university buildings over night.

NCRI - The Iranian regime is building a series of new prisons under the pretext of “temporary detention centers” in Tehran, the state-run news agency Mehr reported on Monday.

“Presently, only one special detention center has been built to hold prisoners temporality on Resalat Highway in northeast Tehran for the province… There will be two more completed before the end of the year. However, based on the estimates, there should be four other buildings of the same nature built in Tehran Province,” said Sohrab Soleimani the director of the regime's prisons.