NCRI – More than 40 employees of Rasa Wire and Cable Company gathered in protest outside the Labor Bureau On Tuesday, July 9, and chanted ‘down with the dictator’.
The security forces immediately surrounded the area and warned the crowd to disperse within 5 minutes.
This warning however made the laborers to form a human chain and remains steadfast. The police then attacked the protesters with pepper gas and arrested more than 15.
These workers had been laid off the previous week.