Islah Party leads popular protests against pro-coalition authorities in Hadramout

HADRAMOUT, Sept. 30 (YPA) – The Islah Party, through one of its affiliated factions, organized widespread popular protests against the authorities loyal to the Saudi-led coalition in several areas of Hadramout Governorate, demanding improved living conditions for teachers.

The protests, organized by the so-called “Change and Liberation Current,” affiliated with Islah and headed by dissident Al-Qaeda leader Riyadh Al-Nahdi, in Hawrah and Al-Qittn in the Hadramaut Valley districts, demanded teachers’ legitimate rights, the payment of their salaries, which have been suspended for the past three months, and efforts to improve living conditions.

Protesters raised banners and slogans calling on the authorities and the coalition-backed government to expedite the teachers’ demands and pay their salaries regularly. They held them fully responsible for the ongoing crisis.

Educational, human rights, and cultural figures participated in the protests, all of whom expressed their solidarity with the teachers’ demands, emphasizing that ignoring their issues poses a threat to the future of education and future generations.

This comes as the teachers’ strike continues in the Hadramout Coast districts, and teachers were assaulted during a demonstration last week in the streets of Mukalla following the authorities’ kidnapping of a number of teachers’ union leaders.