State security police, with the help of the govt-backed unions, cracked down on the railway workers, aborting their planned strike today.
Strikers force police to release detainees
The Giza microbus drivers strike was suspended following the release of the detained drivers.
Torture in Shobra سيدة تتهم رئيس مباحث شبرا الخيمة ثانٍ بأنه حلق شعرها وأطفأ السجائر في خدها وهددها بالاغتصاب
A 24 year old woman accused the head of Criminal Investigations in Shobra el-Kheima’s 2nd Police Station of torturing her, by shaving her head, burning her cheeks with cigarettes, threatening to rape her, after she filed a complaint against him for illegally arresting her husband several times.
The officer was shouting while torturing the woman: “You file a complaint against me, you cockroach?!”