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. |