This is the Mansoura-España Garments Company factory, where around 150 workers out of a total 284 labor force (75% of them are women) have been staging a sit-in since 21 April, demanding their bonuses, unpaid since 1999, amid rumors their company is to be liquidated.
The women left their husbands, children and parents for 29 days now, sleeping on the factory floors, with little food and water supplies.
They are refusing to leave the factory, fearing the owning bank Al-Masraf Al-Muttahid (United Bank) will shut it down with the help of the police.