The Work and Worker Rights Violation Statistical Report-January 2026

Row Subject Number of Cases
December January
1 General News 19 21
2 Protests 60 31
3 Incidents 42 18
4 Detention and Imprisonment 1 1
5 Shoulder-Carriers, Fuel-Carriers 0 7
6 Delay in Wages 15 3
7 Sack and Lay-Off 5 1
8 Statements and Letters 2 17
Total 144 99

More information:
These statistical reports are from more than 99 news items prepared during January 2026.

These reports were prepared from the website of the Committee for the Defense of the Work and Worker Rights, which was collected from domestic and foreign media such as ISNA, Mashregh News, Rokna, Radio Zamaneh, HRANA, IRNA, ILNA, Voice of America Radio, BBC Radio, Iran, Qatar, Radio Farda, the Organization for Human Rights in Iran, the Association of Iranian Journalists, Mehr News Agency, Khorasan News Agency, Qanun Newspaper, Tasnim, and the Baluch Activist Campaign.

The above statistics were collected from domestic and foreign media reports approved by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and in practice cannot be more than 25 to 30 percent of the realities of society.

For more information, please visit the following link:
https://kar-kargar.bashariyat.org

Report Compilers: Salman Ghorbani, Ehsan Ahmadikhah, Hossein Sadeghi, Mohammad Poursafar

The Defense of Work and Worker Rights Committee

 

Translated by Alireza Jahan Bin