Iran: Teachers and education staff stage protests across the country

Following the call by teachers’ associations to stage nationwide demonstrations, teachers and faculty of education staged protests in Tehran and other cities on October 8. The gatherings on the International Teachers’ Day (October 5) and in protest to “the continuation and escalation of summoning, harassment, arrest and imprisonment of teachers”, the trampling of their most basic rights by the ruling religious fascism, and “the ineptitude of the Education Ministry in fulfilling its duty of educating and fostering.”