Check the Arabic report, here.
Year: 2007
Six Mansoura-España Garments Company workers sacked
The United Bank continues its crackdown on the Mansoura-España Garments Company workers.
The management sacked today trade unionist Mohsen el-Shae’r, and five women workers: Soua’d Mamdouh, Soua’d Salama, Sabreen Sabri, Hoda Said, and Nermin Abbas, accusing them of agitating for a strike.
The workers’ names were reported to the Talkha Police Station, together with 15 other names of workers the company is accusing of instigating the current industrial action.
Electronic Press Freedom in Egypt
A conference in defense of Electronic Press Freedom in Egypt is to be held at the Press Syndicate, Wednesday 20 June.
Speakers will include bloggers Alaa Seif, Nora Younis, Khadiga Malek and Abdel Moneim Mahmoud. The conference will start 7:30pm, following a half-hour sit-in in front of the syndicate to demand the release of detained journalists and denounce Mubarak’s regime’s crackdown on bloggers.