{"id":18067,"date":"2015-03-13T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/18067-iran-repression-against-protesting-teachers-intensifies"},"modified":"2023-01-15T03:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:23:05","slug":"iran-repression-against-protesting-teachers-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-repression-against-protesting-teachers-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN: Repression against protesting teachers intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"teachers-sanandaj-20150301-300\" class=\" size-full wp-image-42856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/teachers-sanandaj-20150301-300.jpg\" alt=\"teachers-sanandaj-20150301-300\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, several teachers who participated in the Sunday, March 8 protest in the cities of Tehran and Karaj have been summoned by the courts and by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and faced interrogations.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, four members of the Teachers&#8217; Union in the city of Karaj (located at the west of Tehran) were summoned to the city\u2019s &#8220;Revolutionary Court&#8221; and the regime&#8217;s agents asked them to commit to no longer participating in union activities.<\/p>\n<p>An informed source said: \u201cEsmail Abdi, the Secretary General of the Teachers\u2019 Union, was summoned by the MOIS and was pressured to resign. 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