It’s nice to see graphic designers and artists using their skills in producing anti-regime animations. We need more of those for sure.
Year: 2008
Update on the Suez Canal workers
Jano Charbel provides more details about the agreement reached between Navy Marshall Ahmad Fadel, the chairman of the Suez Canal Company, and the representatives of the workers.
Anti-torture revolt
El-Badeel reports that hundreds of citizens stormed el-Dhaher Poilce Station Friday night, following the death of Muhammad Ali Hassan, a 38-year-old coffee shop owner, in custody. The wife of the victim, Asmaa Muhammad, accused the Criminal Investigations officers of fabricating drug charges against her husband, torturing him to death, as a “favor” for some individuals.
Note a couple of things:
1- The case is yet another proof of the “privatization of torture” in Egypt.
2- Incidents like these (citizens storming police stations following deaths of detainees, or clashes in the neighborhoods triggered by police brutality) are being repeated almost routinely over the past couple of years… exactly like in the years of 1975-76, in the run up to the 1977 intifada.