Bahrain: Teachers face protest clamp

by E Wayne Ross on October 9, 2007

The Gulf News: Teachers face protest clamp

THOUSANDS of teachers are allegedly being harassed by school principals for wearing black armbands as part of a campaign to demand a 30 per cent pay rise.

Teachers claim that the principals were pressuring them to remove the armbands, which they started wearing last week as part of a 10-day show of support to the Bahrain Teachers’ Society.