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Mubarak’s nuclear program

Posted on 02/11/200718/01/2021 By 3arabawy

The regime has shown over and over and over and over again that it cannot handle infrastructure projects, housing, sewage, water, trains, buses, roads, and now they are going nuclear?! If you cannot take care of your trains, how will you take care of the nuclear reactors?!!

And what a cheap move to appease the national sentiments of the public. And I guess it worked for the confused nationalist opposition, including Hamdeen Sabbahi (see video below) of the Nasserist Karama, who declared support for the move.

I totally oppose this move. I do not trust the regime with one gram of uranium. Power could be generated by dzillion other safer ways than nuclear energy.

Down with Mubarak!

Mubarak’s crackdown on free press continues

Posted on 31/10/200730/12/2020 By 3arabawy

The pro-US dictator continues his crackdown on the opposition and independent press:

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a sentence of one-month’s forced labor imposed on editor of al-Wafd, Anwar Al-Hawari and Younes Darwish, the daily’s correspondent in Assiut, 380 kms south of Cairo, for “publishing false news” about fraud by two members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
Darwish wrote an article that appeared in March 2007 based on a meeting of the regional municipal council in Assiut, during which two lawyers, both NDP members, were accused of illegally obtaining land belonging to the ministry of Islamic affairs.
The correspondent said that he had made no judgement about the two complainants but the local court nevertheless sentenced Anwar Al-Hawari and Younes Darmish to a month of forced labor. They will remain free while awaiting the outcome of their appeal, which is due to open on 5 January 2008.
“The growing number of court cases brought against Egyptian journalists is in complete contradiction with Hosni Mubarak’s electoral programme,” the worldwide press freedom organization said. “He promised at the start of his new mandate to decriminalise press offences.”

I received also a statement from HRINFO, which you can read here.

21 industrial conflicts during first two weeks of October

Posted on 30/10/200714/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A new report by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch documents 21 labor protests during the first two weeks of October, in 20 locations.

7000 workers took part in strikes, protests and/or sit-ins, while 70,000 threatened to launch an industrial action. Half of the protests (10 protests) occurred in the textile sector, following the victory of the Ghazl el-Mahalla Sept strike, over similar demands.