AP Irans semi-official news agency says that its judiciary has released two labor activists on bail. Saturdays ISNA report said that Sepideh Gholian was released on some $130,000 bail, along with Atefeh Rangriz, whose bail terms it didnt provide. Gholian was arrested in October 2018 during a demonstration supporting a workers strike over several ...

AP Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered an investigation into claims by a mill workers representative that he was tortured while in detention. Hessamoddin Ashena , an adviser to Rouhani, wrote on his Telegram account that the president ordered a probe into the claim of violence against Esmail Bakhshi. Earlier on Friday, Bakhshi, a representative ...

AFP - Iran's parliament will investigate claims by a labour protest leader that he was tortured in prison following strikes at a sugar factory, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Alireza Rahimi, a member of parliament's presiding board, said his request for an investigation had been accepted by speaker Ali Larijani, according ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: The head of Iran's judicial authority on Monday warned restive workers against creating "disorder", while calling on the government to address their problems. Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani spoke amid efforts to resolve a weeks-long strike at a major sugar factory in western Iran and popular discontent over rising prices. "Workers ...

Bourse and Bazaar - Four people were arrested in southwestern Iran on Sunday as locals joined striking sugar workers in mounting protests over unpaid wages and alleged criminal activity by managers, the official IRNA news agency said. Protests by workers from the Haft Tapeh sugar company in Shush, a city in Khuzestan province, have been building ...