CORRECTION: Teacher sentenced to six years in jail for union activities
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2016 09:00
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If the name Esmail Abdi sounds familiar, it's because this is the third time I've written to you about him.
Esmail is a leader of the Iranian teachers union who was arrested in June 2015 while attempting to travel to Canada to attend the congress of the Education International.
Our two previous campaigns generated over 19,000 messages of protest. But the Iranian authorities haven't been listening. We've learned that Abdi has now been jailed for six years on trumped up charges.
His only real crime is his work as an advocate for teachers and for education.
The Education International has asked us once again to flood the inboxes of the Tehran government with messages of protest demanding his release. Please click here to send your message of protest:
http://www.labourstart.org/go/freeesmail
And please forward this message to your friends, family and fellow union members.
Thank you!
Eric Lee
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