Educators Experience Mass Layoffs in Kurdistan of Iran

Kurdish News Human Rights Watch
Article 903
February 11, 2007
Tehran- More than 1,500 teachers and professors have been laid off by the Iranian regime inside Kurdistan. 334 from Sanandaj, 281 from Meriwan, 230 from Bana, 244 from Saghaz, 116 from Kamyaran, 119 from Diwandarrah, 176 from Karway, and 10 from Bijar on religious grounds. These educators have written an open letter to the Iranian regime declaring that they are educators from Kurdistan that protested the Shah in 1978 and thus assisted the establishment of the Iranian Islamic Regime. They stated that in 1980 the Islamic regime took the freedoms and rights from the people and it was not what had been promised. The educators in Kurdistan request that all international educational organizations and human rights organizations speak up and protest this injustice.