[news] Iran: Up to 1, 000 Teachers Arrested in Brutal Crackdown on Pay Revolt

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Robert Tait in Tehran  
Saturday March 17, 2007  
The Guardian

The authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown that signals their determination to break a pay revolt.

Riot police beat demonstrators with batons as they tried to gather outside Iran's parliament and education ministry and herded them into police vans and buses before transporting them to detention centres across Tehran.

  


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