BEIRUT: The dispute between Lebanon’s civil servants and the Cabinet entered its tenth day Thursday as protestors rallied outside government buildings. Around 300 protesters demanding a wage hike gathered outside the building of the Finance Ministry’s Value Added Tax department in Beirut’s Mathaf before holding a sit-in outside the building of the Finance Ministry’s directorate of revenues.

 

Protesters then moved from the government’s building in Beirut’s Beshara al-Khoury to the capital’s Downtown where they held another sit-in outside the department of real estate. The protests, organized by Lebanon’s Union Coordination Committee, were accompanied by tight security measures from Lebanon’s security forces. [Link]