2005–06 Egyptian protests

The 2005-2006 Egyptian protests was a wave of protests and massive General strikes and opposition protests against president Hosni Mubarak and his cabinet, the military and the results of the 2005 Egyptian presidential election. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets for months in 2005, protesting the re-run of Hosni Mubarak and demanded the fall of the regime. The unrest and civil disturbances were mostly peaceful apart from some acts of civil violence during massive demonstrations in September, denouncing the results of the 2005 Egyptian presidential election. The protests continued into 2006, while massive journalist and artist protest movements were rocking Egypt. Worker protests and student demonstrations were also erupting along towns nationwide, protesting tuition fee hikes and Inflation. Pro-democratic opposition protests were also taking place in the first 4 months of 2006. In September, 10 were killed in clashes at protests against Corruption and cartoons. Unemployment and Poverty also led to massive labour protests across Egypt throughout October-December. A Massive labour uprising occurred in El Mahalla El Kubra in December, in which one was killed in the bloody clashes that followed the worker protests demanding better wages and more better living conditions in working places. A strike wave led to the deaths of 13 in 2007.Egypt: Troops Smother Protests, Detain Activist May 5, 2006 Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/05/05/egypt-troops-smother-protests-detain-activists20 killed as Egyptian police evict Sudanese protesters 31 December 2005 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/31/sudan.brianwhitaker See also 2011 Egyptian Revolution 2012-13 Egyptian protests References Further reading Abdalla Nadine https://books.google.com/books?id=txNEEQAAQBAJ Labor Against the Regime: Workers' Mobilization in Egypt, 2004-2011 Syracuse University Press 2025 9780815638520 Beinin Joel Joel Beinin McLachlan Donald J. Duboc Maire 2010 The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt https://history.stanford.edu/sites/history/files/the_struggle_for_workers_rights.pdf Solidarity Center Beinin Joel 5 2009 Workers' Protest in Egypt: Neo-liberalism and Class Struggle in 21st Century https://doi.org/10.1080/14742830903234320 Social Movement Studies 8 4 449-454 10.1080/14742830903234320 subscription El-Mahdi Rabab 2009 Enough!: Egypt's Quest for Democracy https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414009331719 Comparative Political Studies 42 8 1011-1039 10.1177/0010414009331719 subscription Meital Yoram 2006 The Struggle over Political Order in Egypt: The 2005 Elections https://doi.org/10.3751/60.2.13 The Middle East Journal 60 2 257-279 10.3751/60.2.13 subscription Category:2005 in Egypt Category:2006 in Egypt Category:Protests in Egypt