Schools, banks, shops still closed in Lebanon

Record ID: 1438275

  • Title: Schools, banks, shops still closed in Lebanon
  • Date: 23rd October 2019
  • Summary: BEIRUT, LEBANON (OCTOBER 23, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TENTS BLOCKING ROAD IN SASSINE SQUARE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SITTING UNDER TENTS BLOCKING THE ROAD IN SASSINE SQUARE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LEBANESE PROTESTER WHO DID NOT WANT TO GIVE HIS NAME, SAYING: "If the authorities listen and resign now, we will leave the streets and go back to work. We love to live, to evolve and we love Lebanon to be as we want it to be; they are the ones holding on to the chairs and making us stay in the streets for them to hear us." VARIOUS OF ROAD BLOCKED CLOSED SCHOOL LOCKED GATES OF CLOSED SCHOOL VARIOUS OF CLOSED AMERICAN UNIVERSITY VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING BY SEASIDE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LEBANESE CITIZEN WALKING ON THE SEASIDE WHO DID NOT WANT TO GIVE HIS NAME, SAYING: "This revolution should have happened long time ago. We want to live, we want to be relieved, as you're seeing, is there anybody at Raouche (referring to the seaside promenade)? When was the country this way? We want to breathe, we want freedom." PROTESTERS GATHERING IN FRONT OF MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SIGN READING IN ARABIC: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF THE MINISTRY (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LEBANESE TEACHER AT PROTEST, NISRINE SHAHEEN, SAYING: "We were provoked yesterday when the (education) minister decided to open the schools again, but we went to the media, then the minister said that he will keep the schools closed until further notice. We are here to say that all the educational institutions shall remain closed, teachers and students must stay in the streets, our role today is to give our students a national lesson on how to protect their country, how to be revolutionaries, how to be leaders." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS GATHERED OUTSIDE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
  • Embargoed: 6th November 2019 14:29
  • Keywords: Lebanon protests Lebanon protests schools shut roads blocked
  • Location: BEIRUT AND SIDON, LEBANON
  • City: BEIRUT AND SIDON, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B2BK1MV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Flag-waving protesters in Lebanon kept roads blocked with vehicles and makeshift barricades on Wednesday (October 23) while banks and schools remained shut.
    Teachers encouraged students to join street protests, saying that they were teaching children how to protect their country and how to be leaders.
    Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the streets for nearly a week, furious at a political class they accuse of pushing the economy to the point of collapse.
    Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's government announced an emergency reform package on Monday (October 21), to try to defuse the anger of protesters demanding the government resigns and also to steer the heavily indebted state away from a looming financial crisis.
    Banks in Lebanon will remain closed on Thursday (October 24), the banking association said, as unprecedented protests gripped the country despite the government announcing emergency reforms.
    (Production: Alaa Kanaan, Hassan Hankir, Yara Abi Nader, Louisa Naks)
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