Workers at the Palestine Hospital, located in Cairo’s Heliopolis district, are on strike.
Year: 2008
The child labor behind your Egyptian cotton sheets
They work 10-hour shifts in 40C heat for 20 pence a day. Their job? Picking the cotton that makes the world’s finest bed linen. Read the Guardian report on the scandal of Egypt’s child laborers.
And you can watch more photos of cotton agricultural workers here.
Updates on Mubarak’s pigs
A new torture case in the notorious Imbaba Police Station. And another citizen died in Mahalla’s police custody.
