A heated start to the new academic year played an important role in the increase in the\u00a0activity of the protest movement where the teachers, university staff, and students carried\u00a0out strikes, sit-ins, and demonstrations to demand their rights, which focused on improving\u00a0their financial and employment circumstances at a time when voices started to call against\u00a0increase in prices, and shortages in basic good and services, and calling for an end to\u00a0thuggery and the state of lawlessness.<\/p>\n
The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights\u2019 report noted 315 protests during the\u00a0second half of the month of September 2012. In a detailed look at these protests we will find\u00a0that the largest share was in the governmental sector where they carried out 153 incidents\u00a0of protest; citizens carried out 92; as for students they came in at third place with 26 protest\u00a0incidents; entrepreneurs 19; the private sector witnessed 15 incidents; while the public sector\u00a0witnessed 10 incidents only.<\/p>\n
The forms of protests varied: 93 rallies; 55 demonstrations; 55 strikes; 34 sit-ins; 21 hunger\u00a0strikes; 17 incidents of banditry; 13 marches; 11 incidents of public gatherings; five incidents\u00a0of storming of governmental bodies; five incidents where university and school gates were\u00a0closed; four incidents of students\u2019 strikes; and two incidents of protesting by taking off\u00a0clothing.<\/p>\n
As for the protesting groups: citizens\/ the general public were at the forefront \u2018with 92\u00a0incidents of protests; teachers and education administrators 41; government workers 31;\u00a0factory and company workers 28; faculty and staff at universities 26; students 26; the\u00a0medical sector \u201cdoctors, nurses, and technicians\u201d 22; drivers 14; police officers and non-commissioned police officers: seven incidents; engineers and journalists: four incidents of\u00a0protests each; lawyers, customs agents, athletes, and street vendors: two incidents; and one\u00a0incident each by: veterinarians, contractors, mosque employees, emergency aid workers\/\u00a0paramedics, airport loading workers, bakery owners, sailors, tourist guides, cafeteria owners,\u00a0warehouse owners, store owners, and fish farm tenants.<\/p>\n
As for the number of protests, Cairo occupied the first place: 55 incidents; Dakahlaya 26;\u00a0Alexandria and Minya 25; Sharkaya 20; Gharbaya 19; Assiut 18; Suez 15; Fayoum and\u00a0Qalubaya 12; Ismilia 11; Kafr El-Sheikh 10; Port Said 8; Al-Behayra and Damietta 7; Bani\u00a0Suweif and North Sinai 6; Red Sea and the New Valley 5; Luxor and Aswan 4; Giza and\u00a0Marsa Matrouh 3; Qena and Sohag 2; Menofaya and South Sinai one incident each.<\/p>\n
Improving living conditions, increasing wages, and paying allowances and benefits were at\u00a0the forefront with 91 incidents of protest; 28 incidents were to protest against the state of\u00a0lawlessness and thuggery; 19 incidents to demand employment and permanent employee\u00a0status; 11 incidents because of shortages of natural gas cylinders; 10 cases demanding the\u00a0dismissal of officials; nine incidents because of decisions of arbitrary transfer; five incidents to\u00a0demand housing units; five incidents because of the deterioration of services in some villages;\u00a0five other incidents because of\/ against corruption; five incidents to demand employment;\u00a0four incidents because of increased transportation fares; four to demand the establishment\u00a0of a school; four to protest against fuel shortages; four incidents to protest against abuse\/\u00a0ill-treatment\/mistreatment; four incidents to protest against transferring students to different\u00a0schools; three incidents because of unfair dismissal; three incidents because of increase\u00a0in rents; three incidents calling for the release of detainees; three incidents demanding\u00a0the attaching of the Transportation Authority to the Ministry of Transportation instead of\u00a0the Cairo governorate; two incidents because of the deterioration of medical services; two\u00a0cases demanding debt exemption; two incidents because of sewage and sanitation; two to\u00a0demand the paving of roads; two incidents to protest mismanagement; two to protest the lack\u00a0of student housing at universities; two to demand that prisoners be pardoned; two protests\u00a0by farmers demanding the return of their lands; two demanding the codifying of the state of\u00a0affairs; two incidents demanding that universities lower their acceptance grades; two incidents\u00a0protesting against the lack of teachers; two incidents demanding the hand over of land; two\u00a0demanding the installation of an electricity transformer; two incidents to protest the high prices<\/p>\n
of textbooks; two cases because of the Nile University crisis; two to protest the laying off of\u00a0workers; two cases to demand health insurance; two cases to demand the cancellation of\u00a0mandate decisions; two cases demanding factory operation; and one case because of each\u00a0of torture, inflation, negligence, the imposition of fines, road accidents, water pollution, the\u00a0sale of a youth center, and land infringements.<\/p>\n
Workers protested to: demand that factories operate, to change the work system, against the\u00a0referral of their colleagues to prosecution on charges of incitement to strike, to demand that\u00a0they be returned to their jobs, and against the use of force to break up sit-ins.<\/p>\n
As for citizens, some of them protested poor living conditions, poor housing conditions,\u00a0chaotic traffic, and some protested demanding the closure of factories near residential areas\u00a0that are harmful to the environment.<\/p>\n
Graduates protested to demand jobs and demand agricultural lands.<\/p>\n
Drivers protested to demand higher passenger tariffs, and that routes be changed, they also\u00a0protested against the imposition of arbitrary fines, and fuel shortages.<\/p>\n
Doctors and nurses protested the state of lawlessness and thuggery that most hospitals are\u00a0witnessing at the present time, to demand the payment of incentives and benefits, and to\u00a0protest the decision to close a hospital.<\/p>\n
Students protested against the cancellation of the open education system and the return\u00a0of the affiliation system; to demand a solution to the Nile University crisis; to demand that\u00a0acceptance grades into universities be lowered and that the results be announced, or\u00a0be allowed to attend the faculty of engineering; the protested against the arrest of their\u00a0colleagues; the high prices of text books, high tuition fees, and transferring students to\u00a0schools far away from their place of residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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