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Faces of a Crackdown

Posted on 31/05/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

HRW video interviews with former MB detainees:

Human Rights Watch today released video interviews with eight Muslim Brotherhood members recounting earlier detentions. In the interviews, they describe torture and abuse suffered at the hands of security forces and their sentencing by military courts.
Human Rights Watch also listed the names of 223 members of the Muslim Brotherhood currently imprisoned for attempting to exercise their rights to freedom of association and expression. Human Rights Watch has collected names of more than 1,000 members of the group detained between March 2006 and March 2007.

Witch-hunt against Mahalla labor activists continues

Posted on 31/05/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

The witch-hunt against textile labor activists in Ghazl el-Mahalla continues.

The latest victim is Kareem el-Beheiri, who was transferred two days ago from his job at the secretariat department to the spinning sector.

Kareem el-Beheiri, 23-year-old Ghazl el-Mahalla labor activist

Qale’t el-Kabsh residents stage sit-in at Public Prosecutor’s office

Posted on 31/05/200705/03/2021 By 3arabawy

Today, more than 100 Qale’t el-Kabsh residents staged a sit-in in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office in Ramses, protesting the government unfulfilled promises for compensations and alternative housing.

The protesters chanted against the government, accusing officials of being “liars, thieves, corrupt…” and blasted Suzan Mubarak, who loves to present herself as a the “mother of Egyptians,” accusing her of being a “liar.”