At Least Seven Protests and Demonstrations Held in Iran
1-September-2024
Category: protesters
August 31, 2024
News Group: Protests
Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, August 31, 2024, at least seven protests and demonstrations took place in various cities across the country.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Saturday, August 31, 2024, at least seven protests were held by various groups of people in cities throughout Iran.
According to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, personnel from the 115 Emergency Services and nurses held a strike and protest at the entrance of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, continuing the strikes and protests of the past few weeks in response to the neglect of their demands.
The nurses’ strike is to protest the meager overtime pay and other welfare benefits, low wages, difficult work conditions, and excessive work shifts. The striking nurses demand a revision of the nursing service tariff formula, the implementation of “special payments”, and the abolition of mandatory overtime.
Nurses chanted slogans such as: “Inflation is in dollars, our salaries are in rials” and “Our next action is a strike, a strike.”
Retirees of the telecommunications sector in Tabriz held their protest for the fifth consecutive day, demonstrating against unpaid arrears, the method of salary payment, and other demands.
Families accompanied by SMA patients in Tehran gathered in front of the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education in Tehran to protest the unavailability of medications.
Applicants for the National Housing Scheme in Ilam protested in front of the governor’s office, expressing their discontent with the prolonged project, high installments, and the 500 million toman down payment.
Dairy farmers in Yazd discarded their milk in protest against the lack of economic justification for production and the excessive importation of meat.
Employees of the South Pars refineries, employees of the South Pars Gas Complex, workers at the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, tenth, and twelfth refineries of the South Pars Gas Complex in Asaluyeh held protest gatherings, demanding the elimination of the maximum wage cap, correction of the minimum wage, removal of the limitation in seniority pay, full implementation of Article 10 of the Oil Law, and fulfillment of other demands.