"Imprisoned workers must be released!" shouted hundreds of workers at Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro-Industry Company, as their strike entered the 16th day. The workers are demanding that the company pay them their salaries, which they say have remained unpaid for months now.
The strikers have shuttled from venue to venue, hoping to have their voices heard. They have protested at the factory's main site outside the town of Shush, as well as the governor's office, and, even more boldly, at the town's Friday prayers, where they shouted, "We turn our faces to the homeland and our backs to the enemy!"