August 21, 2024
\nNews Group: Protests – Retirees – Women – Prisoners – Workers and Guilds –<\/p>\n
Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, at least 29 gatherings and protest movements were held in various cities across the country.
\nAccording to the Statistics Center of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran, \u201cBreathing in Confinement,\u201d on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, nurses from Imam Reza, Shariati, Ibn Sina, Hashemi Nejad, Adalatian hospitals, and midwifery experts in Mashhad, nurses at hospitals at the entrance to the Central Headquarters of Hamedan University, nurses at 22 Bahman Hospital, nurses and staff from the 115 Emergency Department in Neishabur, nurses at Taleghani Hospital in Abadan, and nurses at Peymanieh Hospital in Jahrom continued their strikes and protests regarding the neglect of their demands.
\nThe nurses’ strike continues nationwide, protesting 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 \u201cspecial payments\u201d, and the abolition of mandatory overtime. In some hospitals, the nurses’ protests took the form of marches. Security officers at Imam Reza Hospital attacked the protesters, but the nurses resisted and continued their protests. The nurses chanted: “Don\u2019t think it’s just for today, we\u2019ll be here every day \/ Nurses, shout out, demand your rights \/ Both Shiraz and Mashhad, strike, strike.”<\/p>\n
In the 30th week of \u201cTuesday Protests Against the Death Penalty,\u201d political prisoners in the women’s ward, Ward 4, Ward 6, and Ward 8 of Evin Prison, political prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison (Unit 3, Unit 4), political prisoners in Karaj Central Prison, and political prisoners in the prisons of Khorramabad, Naqadeh, Mashhad, Saqqez, Khoy, Ardabil, Qaemshahr, Urmia, Marivan, Kamyaran, Baneh, Salmas, Shiraz, Rasht, and female political prisoners in Tabriz Prison continued their Tuesday hunger strikes in protest against the death penalty.
\nInvestors of Rezayat Khodro Taravat Novin Company in Qazvin held a march in protest of their unmet demands; security forces attacked the protesters, and the demonstrators responded by chanting \u201cshame on you! Shame on you!!\u201d<\/p>\n
Retirees of the Social Security Organization in Kermanshah gathered in front of the city\u2019s Social Security office to protest poor living conditions, poverty, inflation, and high prices, demanding an increase in pensions, welfare services, and free medical care.
\nThe retirees, while supporting the nurses’ protests, chanted: “Unity, unity against poverty and corruption \/ The imprisoned teacher must be freed \/ We support the nurses \/ The nurses are awake, they despise discrimination \/ Improving the nurses’ living conditions is equivalent to saving patients’ lives \/ Nurses’ servitude costs patients’ lives \/ They claim to be Muslim, but their actions are theft and plunder.”<\/p>\n
Ariankhodro voucher holders gathered in front of the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade in Tehran to protest the 245 million Toman price increase by Arian Motor Company without authorization.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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