{"id":85975,"date":"2020-05-23T06:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newpersian-heritage.com\/?p=85975"},"modified":"2020-05-23T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T11:50:23","slug":"crackdown-intensifies-another-teacher-arrested-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/05\/23\/crackdown-intensifies-another-teacher-arrested-in-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown Intensifies: Another Teacher Arrested in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Zamaneh Media \u2014 Zeinab Hamrang, an activist teacher, was arrested in Tehran. According to Tehran\u2019s Teachers\u2019 Union telegram channel, security forces arrested Zeinab Hamrang on January 12 in her house in Tehran.<\/p>\n

Zeinab Hamrang is a high school teacher in Tehran\u2019s 18th district. Zeinab is in jail now. Mr. Seify, Zeinab\u2019s husband, said that around 6 PM on Sunday, five people came to arrest Zeinab. Mr. Seify\u2019s first name has not been disclosed on Iranian media.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour male and a female agent from one of the security organizations entered our house without any prior notice. They said that they are from security police. They showed us the search warrant, and they searched the house. They also confiscated some of the family\u2019s personal items. Then they arrested my wife, Ms.Hamrang, and transferred her to an unknown place,\u201d Mr. Seify said.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cCourt has set a 600 Million Toman (48000 dollars) bail for her. We cannot afford to pay this bail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reportedly, Mr. Seify, who is a retired teacher, has traveled to his hometown, Ardebil, to arrange the bail money.<\/p>\n

The reason for Zeinab\u2019s arrest and her charges have not been announced yet, but she is not the only Iranian teacher in jail.<\/p>\n

Jafar Ebrahimi, another teacher and a member of the Iranian Teachers Association, was arrested on December 26, 2019, while attending a ceremony for the victims of the November protests.<\/p>\n

Several other teachers and union activists are in prison in Iran. Most of them were arrested after protesting against government policies.<\/p>\n

The teacher\u2019s long-sought demands include wage increase and improvement of living conditions for both employees and pensioners, proper health insurance coverage, an end to privatization and commodification of education, providing free and high-quality education for all children, freedom of association and the right to form and join independent unions.<\/p>\n

Ismail Abdi, Mohammad Habibi, Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi are among the teachers\u2019 union activists who are currently held in prison.<\/p>\n

Teacher\u2019s struggles in Iran have a long history, dating back to before the 1979 Iranian revolution. However, in each period, they have had different demands. In recent decades and mainly because of mismanagement, corruption, and sanctions, their demands have shifted from educational reforms to financial demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zamaneh Media \u2014 Zeinab Hamrang, an activist teacher, was arrested in Tehran. According to Tehran\u2019s Teachers\u2019 Union telegram channel, security forces arrested Zeinab Hamrang on January 12 in her house in Tehran. Zeinab Hamrang is a high school teacher in Tehran\u2019s 18th district. Zeinab is in jail now. Mr. Seify, Zeinab\u2019s husband, said that around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}