The crackdown on Ghazl el-Mahalla activists continues.
The govt-appointed CEO Fouad Hassan ordered today the transfer of five more women workers away from their departments. As I’m writing, a Mahalla delegation has arrived at the General Federation of Trade Unions HQ in Galaa St, to protest the crackdown and is trying to see Hussein Megawer the Federation’s boss (and the head of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party parliamentary bloc). The Federation officials say Megawer is not present, and the delegation members are currently showered with phone calls from state-backed union officials begging them to leave the building.
UPDATE: The Ghazl el-Mahalla workers are staging a sit-in at the Federation’s hall, chanting against privatization, corruption. We need photographers, bloggers and journalists to go there urgently. Here is also a report from Afaq.