The remaining striking workers at the American University in Cairo ended their campus sit-in…and accepted the severance pay offered by the administration in hopes that the university would drop the reports filed against them to the police… Those on strike feared that they would be arrested on campus after the administration issued a statement…saying that if striking cleaners do not respond to its settlement offer…it will consider this a rejection of the offer and “will report to the local authorities the names of those employees who continue to unlawfully remain on campus while on mandatory administrative leave.”… Around 500 faculty members, students and university employees have signed a petition condemning the university’s decision not to renew the cleaners’ contracts, demanding the decision be suspended, the contracts be renewed and a plan to enhance the quality of the current cleaning service be implemented…