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State Security pigs detain Grain Mills labor activist

Posted on By 3arabawy

I received the following message from Nagy Rashad, a worker at the South Cairo Grain Mills:

قام أمن شركة مطاحن جنوب القاهرة بتلفيق تهمة توزيع منشورات ( بيان الاستغاثة من العاملين بمطحن الشروق الى زملائهم بالشركة للتضامن معهم) وتم إرساله الى أمن الدولة بالسادس من أكتوبر وذلك منذ يوم السبت الماضى وقد شاهد رئيس اللجنة النقابية بالشركة سعد شكرى أمس الاثنين عندما كان ذاهب الى مقر مباحث امن الدولة للتحقيق معه هو الاخر بتهمة تحريض عمال مطحن الشروق على الاعتصام .
فشاهد العامل المقبوض علية أشرف عبداللة يركب سيارة الترحيلات ولم يتمكن من الحديث معه لمعرفة ما تم معه نرجو من جميع المهتمين مساعدة أشرف عبدالله فى محنتة

Ashraf Abdallah, a worker at the South Cairo Grain Mills, was detained and sent Saturday to the State Security Police bureau in the 6th of October City, after he was accused by the company security of distributing leaflets in solidarity with the Shorouq Grain Mills workers who had staged a sit-in. Ashraf was spotted Monday in a prison truck, by Sa’d Shoukri (the head of the Factory Union Committee) who was summoned to the SS bureau in the 6th of October City for interrogation over charges of inciting workers to demonstrate.

UPDATE: Ashraf has been released. ؤore details here.

Pigs detain 25 Luxor residents after clashes over museum plan

Posted on By 3arabawy

From the Daily News Egypt:

Police on Saturday detained 25 Luxor residents for questioning about their involvement in clashes with police during a protest against government attempts to move the group from their homes to make room for an open-air museum, a security official said.
The detainees are facing charges of “illegal gathering and vandalism,” Omar Allameddin, head of the local prosecutor’s office, told the Associated Press.
During a violent demonstration on Friday in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor, police forcibly prevented hundreds of protesters from entering the Karnak Temple, one of the most famous sites from the Pharaonic era.
The protesters hurled stones at police, who responded by firing tear gas and arresting several of them on the spot.