Today, Sunday, most Iranian schools saw a general teachers’ strike in support of the protests that have been ongoing since the middle of last month, following the death of the young woman Muhsa Amini after her arrest by the so-called “Ethics Police” or the religious police.
In protest of the recent killings and arrests, which primarily targeted college students and schoolchildren, thousands of instructors have decided not to visit the classrooms.
In addition, Pyroz Nami, the Secretary-General of the Teachers Channel in Khuzestan Governorate, and Ismail Khadiari, an English teacher in Caspian, were also detained by Iranian authorities.
According to “Iran International,” she also detained retired teacher Ghulam Reda Aseghari in the northern province of Ardabil.
At least 23 juveniles were killed by the police forces during the rallies, Amnesty International confirmed last week.
While more than 400 demonstrators were killed, according to the National Council for Iranian Resistance.
It is reported that since the death of Amani on September 16 (2022) three days after her arrest by the Ethics Police, and then transferred to a hospital in Tehran, and the demonstrations were not subside in the country.
Her passing has since stoked the flames of resentment over a number of issues, including the limitations placed on individual freedoms and the stringent regulations governing women’s attire, as well as the living and economic crisis that the Iranian people experience, not to mention the stringent regulations imposed by the government system and its political structure as a whole.
Along with prominent singers, athletes, and actors, women participated actively in these demonstrations, as did university students and schools.
On the other hand, the authorities violently confronted this movement, as the police fired live bullets in many neighborhoods and sites, and they also arrested hundreds without mercy..
A general strike in Iran schools .. “Don’t murder students,”
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