Introduction: 

The Labor and Social Protests Monitoring Center is releasing its newsletter covering the second half of April 2021. This period saw a decline in the protest movement with six protests being monitored, four of which are social while two are labor/ professional.

It was noted that suicide cases due to hard living conditions took place during the reporting period as only two cases were monitored. These cases were reported by well documented news websites.

 

Details of labor and professional protests: 

Kind of protests  Number of protests The protesting sector  The geographical region Details of the protest 
Protest vigil 1 The Workers Sector at the Ministry of Culture Cairo/ Zamalek Employees T “Dar Al Kutub” organized a protest denouncing the financial regulations
Filing a lawsuit to re-run the elections 1 The Press and Media Sector Cairo/ Journalists Syndicate A journalist filed a lawsuit in protest against the elections’ result

 

Details of Social protests 

Kind of protests  Number of protests The protesting sector  The geographical region Details of the protest 
Suicide due to economic conditions 2 The residential neighborhoods Qalyubia / Shubra Al-Khaima * A worker committed suicide due to hard living conditions

* A travel office’s owner took his life due to the accumulation of debts

Protest vigil 1 The residential neighborhoods Cairo/ Nozha Owners of Porto Marina organized a protest denouncing the construction of a popular residential area adjacent to their homes.
Collective Complaint 1 The residential neighborhoods Giza/ Sphinx People of the Sphinx area in Giza signed a collective complaint complaining to the district administration about the disruption of services in the region.