Iran: As schools get ready to open, many teachers still linger in prison

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The arbitrary resentencing of imprisoned teacher Rasoul Bodaqi in mullahs’ shamcourt to 3 more years in prison

As the schools are about to open, a large number of teachers in the country continue to linger in prison, including Messrs Mahmoud Beheshti Langeroudi, Mehdi Bohlouli and Reza Neiknejad who are recently arrested, as well as Messrs Rasoul Bodaqi, Esmail Abdi, Ali-Akbar Baghbani, Alireza Hashemi and Abdolreza Qanbari who were already in prison. This is while Ali-Asghar Fani, Rouhani’s Education Minister, deceptively expressed hope on September 15 that the imprisoned teachers would be released before September 23, the day that schools open.

The prison term for political prisoner Mr. Rasoul Bodaqi, the noble teacher that has been in prison for six years for defending teachers' rights, ended on August 4, 2015, but the Iranian regime refuses to free him and in an arbitrary and sham trial condemned him to another three years in prison .

Tunne Kelam MEP: Human rights in Iran worsened under Rouhani

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Members of the European Parliament last week lambasted European Union foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini for the lack of EU responsiveness to the appalling human rights situation in Iran.

Tunne Kelam, an MEP from Estonia and a longtime member of the Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI) intergroup at the European Parliament, told Ms. Mogherini during a debate on Iran that under Hassan Rouhani more than 2000 prisoners have beenexecuted in Iran.