In recent days, 9 workers in District 3 of Ahvaz Municipality were arrested by police following a strike .
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Asr-e-Junub News, the protest was over the workers’ not having received their job benefits.
The mayor of District 3 of Ahvaz expressed he was not informed about the detention of these workers, adding that “The municipality deals with a third-party contractor, not the workers, and the contractor has been paid”.
As of this writing, two of the nine workers, Davoodi and Mansouri, are still in custody.