The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch has issued its report for on the industrial conflicts during the month of July: 17,000 workers took part in the industrial action, while 100,000 threatened to stage protests.
Year: 2007
40 MBs detained
Mubarak’s State Security Police arrested yesterday 40 young Muslim Brothers, during a summer trip to the Balteem Beach in Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. MB lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the number of the detainees from the group has now reached 457.