Year: 2011
Murderers on the loose سفاح الإسكندرية وائل الكومي
Officer Wael el-Komi, one of the notorious torturers at El-Raml 2nd Police Station in Alexandria, who was involved in the murder of unarmed protesters during the uprising, has been released by the prosecutor, together with two other officers, Motaz el-Asqalani of Gomrok Police Station and Muhammad Saafan of El-Montaza, who were accused of murders on the Friday of Anger. So much for reforming the police.
UPDATE: Following protests by the families of the martyrs, the three officers have been taken into custody again. It only goes to show that pressure from below and protests are still the only language the government understands. This revolution is hardly finished.
Transport workers have no right to impeach their managers, says minister
The new minister of transportation, Atef Abdel Hameed, responded negatively to calls by transport workers in several sectors to impeach their senior managers, saying it was none of the workers’ business.
The mass strikes since the first week of February, which effectively led to Mubarak’s fall, saw workers putting forward a wide array of demands related to their work conditions and right to unionize. But more or less the common denominator in those strikes has been the impeachment of corrupt managers and directors, all remnants of the Mubarak’s regime. The public transport workers in specific played a central role in the bringing the capital to halt, adding more pressure on Mubarak with a set of clear political demands for regime change.
Minister Abdel Hameed has to listen to the workers.