Writer: Roman Miraki Fuad Fathi (Sirus Fathi), a labor activist from Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, and a political prisoner imprisoned in Evin Prison, living in Tehran had previously been arrested by security forces on April 26, 2019, during a workers’ rally on the occasion of International Labor Day, […]
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In the past academic year, 750,000 students dropped out of school because of poverty, including 150,000 at the primary level. According to Kolbarnews, the head of the Stationery Union in Tehran announced that in the last school year, more than 750,000 students across the country left school because their families […]
Local sources in Damavand County have reported ongoing security pressures and an increasing trend of dismissals of seasonal workers in the region. According to Kolbarnews, about a month ago, security forces launched a coordinated raid on the homes of several seasonal workers. According to relatives of these workers, the operation […]
The Director of Education in Neyshabur has reported that 720 children at the primary level in this county have been deprived of schooling. According to Kolbarnews, quoting Mehr News Agency, Ebrahim Heidari stated: “This year, 44,789 primary school students have been registered in Neyshabur, of which 6,673 are first-grade entrants. […]
A series of workplace accidents caused by unsafe working conditions in the cities of Mashhad, Shush, Fariman, and Tehran resulted in the deaths of three workers, including a firefighter, and injuries to ten others. According to Kolbarnews, in Mashhad, a fire at an auto body shop on Mofatteh Sharqi Street […]
According to official statistics from the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, in the year 1403 (March 2024 – March 2025), 1,986 people lost their lives due to workplace accidents across Iran. Additionally, 26,548 workers were injured in work-related incidents during the same period. Among the fatalities, 957 deaths (42%) were caused […]
Today, on Vali-Asr Street in Tehran, two Afghan migrant workers were involved in a workplace accident, resulting in the death of one and severe injury of the other. According to Kolbarnews, the incident occurred at Kian Tower, located above Zafar Street.The two workers, who were brothers identified as Ali Nazari […]
The Islamic Republic of Iran, in continuation of its inhumane and repressive policies against the impoverished, has now launched a new wave of deportation, arrest, humiliation, and starvation of Afghan migrants. While Afghan migrants have been an inseparable part of Iran’s working class for over forty years, they are now […]
Detention of Afghan migrants and stateless Baluch citizens under inhumane conditions at the Al-Ghadir camp in Zahedan has raised serious concern. Hunger and thirst behind locked doors have forced local Baluch residents to pass food and water through the camp gates to the detainees. According to Kolbarnews on Thursday, July […]
Over the past five days, Iranian authorities have forcibly deported more than 72,000 Afghan migrants. According to Kolbarnews, in the past five days, Iranian authorities have forcibly deported more than 72,000 undocumented Afghan nationals through the Dogharoun border crossing in Razavi Khorasan province. according to Hussein Jamshidi, the governor of […]