A number of protest rallies took place on Wednesday, June 8th in cities including Kermanshah, Paveh and Ilam.
In Paveh; protesters, mainly workers, bakers, street janitors and centrally municipality cleaners took to the streets demanding their rights and unpaid wages.
They staged a gathering outside the governorate to protest against the reduction of their flour quotas and demanded that the regime allocate more quotas particularly during the month of Ramadan.
In Kermanshah; the street cleaners gathered in the courtyard of the city’s municipality to protest against six months’ non-payment of their deferred salaries. During the gathering, three workers clashed with the regime’s repressive agents who tried to disrupt their gathering. The workers were threatened with dismissal by the regime’s agents.

Later staff of the Water and Sewage Department in the city of Kermanshah staged a protest gathering outside the department located in Women Boulevard in Resalat District and demanded immediate payment of their four months’ deferred salaries.

In Ilam, based on a separate report, a group of contractual workers and staff of the medical emergency center in the city gathered outside the medical center on Wednesday to protest against three months non-payment of their salaries and benefits and demanded that the authorities resolve this problem.