Around 3,000 citizens staged peaceful protests Monday in protest against the amendments to the mandatory social insurance law.

People of all ages to be affected by the legal modifications once they begin taking effect on 1 January 2015, including journalists, various media professionals, students, actors, musicians, and translators, took to the streets to express their disapproval with the obligation of paying the state as much as 37 percent of all fees exceeding the minimum wage of 9,590 denars irrespective of whether the fees are an only source of income or an extra income.