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Tag: Iranian miners
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Iranian Miners’ Call for Justice Echoes in Social Media
In December of 2015 miners of Agh Dareh gold mines staged a number of protests which earned many miners imprisonment, flogging and hefty fines.…
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Iran Drops Flogging Sentence against Protesting Miners
The appellate court has reduced the sentences against miners of Bafgh Iron Ore Mines suspending their jail term for three years and changing the…
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Mine workers in Yazd sentenced after protests
Five workers at Chadormaloo Mine in Yazd Province have been sentenced to one year in jail and flogging for “disrupting order and public peace”.…
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Fatal mine accident adds to worker safety concerns
Two miners were killed in an accident at the Manganese Mine near Qom on Sunday March1. ILNA reports that the accident occurred at a…
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Miners continue strike over firings, right to protest
Miners at Bafgh Mine have entered their fourth day of a strike to protest the termination of 17 of their colleagues as well as…