Fourteen Protest Gatherings Held on Monday
22-April-2025
Category: Labor and guilds، protesters، Retirees
21 April 2025
News Category: Protests – Retirees– Labour and Guilds
Breathing in Confinement – On Monday, 21 April 2025, at least fourteen protest gatherings and demonstrations took place across various cities.
According to the Statistics Centre of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Breathing in Confinement, the family of political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, who is sentenced to death, continued their sit-in for a fifth consecutive day outside Urmia Prison, protesting the death sentence, the lack of transparency regarding his case, and the authorities’ failure to respond. They called for an immediate halt to his execution.
Telecommunications pensioners in Kermanshah, Bijar, Rasht, Zanjan, Tehran, Tabriz, Marivan, Sanandaj, Isfahan, and Bandar Abbas staged marches and protests against what they described as continued injustice by the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (Setad) and the IRGC Cooperative Foundation, citing the failure to implement regulation 89/24 and the non-payment of their entitlements.
Protesters chanted slogans such as:
• “Setad-e Farman-e Imam has taken over telecom and stolen our rights!”
• “We won’t rest until we get what we’re owed!”
• “The retired are awake and reject oppression!”
• “The Executive Headquarters has stolen our rights!”
• “No nation has ever witnessed this much injustice!”
• “Lying parliament—where are your promises?”
Workers at Phase 12 of the South Pars refinery held their third day of protests inside the refinery compound and administrative building, demanding the payment of outstanding leave entitlements from the previous year.
Residents of Dehmord village, in the Bakhtagan district, protested the damaging operations of a nearby mine, which is active dangerously close to residential areas.
University students from the Rezai Nejad dormitory also staged a protest over unaddressed issues and neglect by university authorities.