Attack - Iran - Police crack down on bus drivers’ protest
Tehran, Iran -Iran Focus -May 2, 2006: -- Iran’s State Security Forces and special anti-riot police attacked a peaceful demonstration by bus drivers and conductors in the Iranian capital on Monday on the occasion of International Workers’ Day... Close to a 1,000 protestors gathered on Monday outside the Tehran Bus Company headquarters to protest against the arrest and sacking of many of their colleagues for taking part in protests against the government in recent months... Several transit workers and a dozen students were arrested in the ensuing clashes... Iranian authorities launched a heavy crackdown on the transit workers in January, arresting large numbers of bus drivers who had decided to go on strike... In February, agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the country’s secret police, conducted night raids into the homes of striking bus drivers and workers in Tehran, arresting more than a thousand people on political charges...
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