Kefaya

Kifaya (Arabic كفاية, [ kefæ Jae ː ] ) is a grassroots political movement in Egypt. Basis of the movement was a campaign in the Egyptian capital of Cairo in 2004 for the direct election of the Egyptian President Office, which held at that time for 23 years, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak. One of their slogans was doing " Kifaya " ( Egyptian Arabic: "It is enough " ), which refers to the long tenure of Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak. The movement of a broad alliance, the Left and commoners, secularists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood is funded belong. As spokesman applies the well-known Egyptian writer Ala al - Aswani.

In December 2004, the movement organizing the first demonstration in the Mubarak era, which called for an end of the regime. Among other things, on 27 April 2005, the group demonstrated further in 15 different cities, where 500 participants were counted alone in Luxor in 1200 and in Cairo. According to various data, these were partially beaten and about 45 to 75 people temporarily arrested. At the meetings slogans were heard " with Mubarak low " after the President had said on the eve of having not yet decided whether to back a candidate in the upcoming presidential election as " an end to corruption " and.

After Mubarak was officially re-elected in September 2005 with 88.6 percent of the vote (the choice is considered as manipulated ) and the repression of the movement further persisted, lost the movement in the following few years. But is considered as an essential precursor of the revolution in Egypt in 2011.