Contract workers staged Monday a sit-in outside Electricite Du Liban in Corniche al-Naher, to protest against the administration’s failure to pay their salaries and grant them tenure.
Conflict erupted between the protesters and the security forces, and security reinforcements were called in.
Beshara al-Asmar had called on the security forces during the sit-in to stand by them on the same side, to call on the authorities to grant them their rights.