Wave of arrests of social and labor activists in Iran

Mr. Mahmoud Salehi

Following the suspicious death of labor activist Mr. Shahrokh Zamani in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj (north-west of the Iranian capital Tehran), there are now reports by human rights organizations of a wave of arrests of union andsocial activists.

Iran: Two girls among student activists arrested

In nightly raids launched on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, on residential units in Tehran and Karaj, security forces arrested a number of student activists, most of them from Tehran's Khajeh Nassir Tousi University, school of . In some cases, they broke the door to enter the house and took away personal belongings and computers after thorough search of the house.

The names of a few of those arrested and imprisoned in Evin Prison, have been obtained, among them two female student activists, Kiana Karimpour and Mehraban Keshavarzi.