CAIRO - Thousands of Egypt's police force members and civil workers of the Interior Ministry continued on Tuesday their second-day strike outside Ministry premises and other sites nationwide, asking for higher salaries and shorter work hours. Protestors stressed that they will not end strike until their demands are met. They said they want to cleanse the ministry of corrupt elements, hanging placards that read 'open strike', "closed for cleansing", "We are still in service and not dismissed". Hassan Shendi, media coordinator of the general coalition of police force, told Al-Youm Al-Sabie website that the strike is not for the sake of sectoral demands, but urges the dismissal of the assistants of former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli." "High ranking officers at the ministry should have been sacked as they shared in killing the protestors in January 25 Revolution," Shendi added. Fekri Abdel-Ghani, the head of the coalition of civil workers at the ministry, emphasised that he joined the strike to support his colleagues, holding leaders at the ministry responsible for the current strike as they have given deaf ears to their demands.
