Videogate continues. Two new video clips have surfaced online, purportedly showing a detainee being tortured in Port Said’s Dawahi Police Station, by Officer Muhammad Abu Ghazala the station’s Chief of Criminal Investigations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C65isljLU0
Real Estate Tax Collectors demonstrating against the state-backed General Federation of Trade Unions, Hussein Hegazi Street, Downtown Cairo.
The UK Public and Commercial Services Union has sent a message of support to the Egyptian independent trade union activists:
The Public & Commercial Services Union would like to send a message of support and solidarity to our colleagues in RETA for your dispute over the social welfare fund and the right to organize peacefully to improve terms and conditions for property tax collectors. We hope that today’s strike action is successful in achieving your aims.
Hugh Lanning
PCS Deputy General Secretary
Tom Flynn
Executive Officer – DGS Office
UPDATE: Another message of solidarity:
Fraternal greetings and hopes for a successful and just victory in your dispute. I know our national union is sending a message of support but please also accept the best wishes of the PCS Central London (property) Valuation Branch ( we do similar work to yourselves); our members have been impressed by the courage and determination you have shown in your struggles for workers’ rights.
Andy Reid, on behalf of PCS Central London Valuation Branch and in a personal capacity as a member of the PCS National Executive Committee