Civil unrest is more what I meant, with those people much in mind, felt like a better term than coup. But I don't think "protest" is necessarily wrong, it doesn't count out violent ones AFAIK (lethally repressed, riots, etc), i.e :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

> The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests [...]