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IRAN: Workers of East Alborz Coal Mines protest for 3 consecutive days

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NCRI – Coal miners from the East Alborz (Alborz-E-Sharghi) Company, in northern Iran, have been protesting for three consecutive days in front of the company office. Their protest against the transfer of ownership into corporate-leased mining complex lots began on Sunday and by Tuesday was continuing, according to local reports.

During the protest, the workers raised the issues of their unpaid and delayed salary payments. The repressive police officers fearing the workers’ fury released the three protesters they had detained on the first day of the rally.

East Alborz Coal Mines company has close to 1,400 workers, who are still awaiting two months’ salary plus bonuses.

In May the state-run ILNA news agency reported that workers of the East Alborz Coal Mines protested against two months non-payment of their salaries as well as bonuses and said: “Although two months of the new year have passed, the bonuses of 400 miners working in East Alborz Coal Mines as well as two months delayed and unpaid salaries are not paid yet.”

Seventeen Iranian miners who took part in a protest after being made redundant were lashed between 30 and 100 times last month as punishment by the mullahs’ regime in Iran.

The men previously worked at the Aq-Dareh Gold Mine in Western Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran.