Branch 31 of the Court of Administrative Justice upheld the dismissal of Somayeh Akhtarshemar, a labor union activist and teacher from Marivan, rejecting her appeal and confirming the initial ruling. According to Kolbarnews, citing the Telegram channel of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, the dismissal of Somayeh […]
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Gunfire from military forces at a Sukhtbar’s vehicle in Iranshahr resulted in damage to a civilian’s parked car. According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Wednesday, May 1, 2025, military personnel stationed at the Sarbaz taxi terminal in Iranshahr opened fire on a suspected Sukhtbari vehicle.The shooting occurred despite the […]
Two Baloch Sukhtbars were killed and injured following a vehicle overturn in the Ghatarkhanjak area of Zahedan. According to Kolbarnews, on the morning of Thursday, May 1, 2025, two Sukhtbar brothers from the Siyahdak region of Zahedan were involved in a crash while transporting fuel. Their vehicle overturned along the […]
Payam Fathi, a labor activist from Sanandaj, was summoned to the city’s Intelligence Office just ahead of International Workers’ Day. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Payam Fathi received a phone call from security forces instructing him to appear at the Intelligence Office at 10 a.m. that same […]
Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent leader of the labor movement, was assaulted by plainclothes agents in Saqqez on International Workers’ Day. According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, May 1, 2025, Mahmoud Salehi an influential activist and leader of the Kurdish and Iranian labor movement was attacked and beaten in Saqqez. The report […]
Following a fire at an informal fuel storage site (known locally as a mandi) in Jakigour, two Baloch Sukhtbars were injured due to intense heat and the rapid spread of flames. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, a fire broke out at a mandi in the Jakigour area […]
Twenty-eight thousand construction workers in West Azerbaijan province, including 10,000 in the city of Urmia, have been waiting for more than six years to receive social security insurance coverage. According to Kolbarnews, quoting ILNA, in July 2023, only 500 insurance quotas were allocated to construction workers in Urmia. Given the […]
May 1st, International Workers’ Day, is not merely a symbolic date, it is a moment to echo the accumulated rage and silenced struggles of the oppressed, whose voices are heard not through official media, but in the reverberation of bullets and the wreckage left by bourgeois civilization. Under the rule […]
On the verge of International Workers’ Day, pressure on labor activists in Iran has intensified. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Zanyar Dabbaghian, a labor activist and former political prisoner, was summoned to the Intelligence Office in Sanandaj.Reports indicate that the summons came through a phone call from […]
An explosion at the “Avanar Parsian Meymeh” fireworks manufacturing factory in Shahin Shahr County resulted in the deaths of two workers and serious injury to a third. According to Kolbarnews, the incident occurred on the morning of Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at around 10:30 AM. One worker died at the […]