Irán, República Islámica del - Charged with celebrating World Teachers’ Day (2010)

On 6 October, the World Teacher’s day, plain clothes policemen burst into the house of Aliakbar Baghani, general secretary of the Tehran Teachers Association, to break up a union meeting. All eleven teachers present were taken away, and the place and the reason for their arrest were not made known immediately. Baghani was interrogated for 11 hours and charged with “holding an unauthorised meeting” and “celebrating World Teachers’ Day”. Nine teachers were released the next day, while Mehdi Bohlouli was not released until 8 October and Mohammadreza Rezaie-Garakani until 21 October.