Iran's teachers' leaders warn of jail threat
- 24 May 2016
- Education & Family
A teachers' union leader in Iran has warned of an intensifying campaign of harassment and imprisonment by the Iranian authorities against teachers' union representatives.
Hashem Khastar, from Mashhad in north-east Iran, says there have been hunger strikes staged by teachers in protest against jailings and the denial of human rights.
Mr Khastar, from the teachers' union in Khorasan Razavi province, says he has been jailed three times.
He says this followed his defence of the right of teachers to belong to an independent union and that he was jailed for "trying to bring out the voice of the innocent teachers of Iran".
"The teachers want, through this teachers' movement, to achieve democracy," he says.
The Iranian authorities have so far not commented on the claims made to the BBC about the treatment of teachers' representatives.
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