Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, a protesting teacher, was sentenced to six months of suspension from service.
Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, a protesting teacher from Mashhad who participated in the November teachers' rally at the invitation of the Coordination Council of Teachers' Unions, was sentenced to six months' suspension from service.
In the verdict of the preliminary board investigating administrative violations of education employees in Khorasan Razavi, the text of which was published by Mr. Sepehri on his Twitter account on Sunday, March 9, he was accused of participating in an illegal gathering, leaving his workplace during office hours, and insulting the Leader of the Islamic Republic.
Friends, today I was sentenced to 6 months of suspension from service by the Khorasan Razavi Education Administrative Violations Board . pic.twitter.com/fVgfeMAyrc
— Mohammad Hosein Sepehri 2353 (@hosein2353) March 10, 2019
Teachers and educators from various cities in Iran held sit-ins in October, November, and March of this year to protest the living conditions of teachers, discrimination in payments, the lack of free educational facilities for all citizens, and insurance problems.
Source: Voice of America
