iranwire:

Authorities arrested Esmail Abdi, the general secretary of Iran’s Teachers’ Trade Union, on Saturday, June 27, after they summoned him to report to the public prosecutor’s office at Evin Prison.

At the end of June, the Teachers’ Trade Union reported, Abdi was preparing to travel to Canada to participate in the International Conference of Teachers’ Trade Unions. He was due to leave from Armenia, but border guards stopped him as he was leaving the country, and informed him he was not permitted to leave.  Border guards also told him he was required to report to the public prosecutor’s office at Evin about the matter.

Abdi responded to the summons, and on June 27, accompanied by 70 teachers — many of whom had traveled from other cities across Iran — reported to Evin. Following a period of interrogation, authorities officially arrested him.

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