The Administrative court adjourned the hearing of the lawsuit filed by the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services against the government, to revoke the latter’s decree to shut down the Center’s HQ in Helwan, to 3 July.
More details in Arabic, here.
After State Security banned them from traveling to Italy last Friday, Abu Omar‘s wife Nabila Ghaly and her son Muhammad Abdel Hakim were finally allowed to leave Alexandria for Milan Tuesday morning.
Does anyone know what was going on in downtown yesterday? I was walking around 11am in downtown, when I saw at least six Central Security Forces trucks parked in Talaat Harb, accompanied by police vans. There were also at least two dozen officers, both uniformed and plainclothes, including Sherif el-Qamaty of State Security’s Counter-Communism Bureau (Maktab Mokafahet el-Shyou’eia), and the usual posse from Qasr el-Nil Police Station.
Was there anything organized yesterday in the area around that time? I honestly don’t know… Anyone?
[Above: CSF troops in downtown Cairo. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, taken on 12 July 2007.]