Today, more than 100 Qale’t el-Kabsh residents staged a sit-in in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office in Ramses, protesting the government unfulfilled promises for compensations and alternative housing.
The protesters chanted against the government, accusing officials of being “liars, thieves, corrupt…” and blasted Suzan Mubarak, who loves to present herself as a the “mother of Egyptians,” accusing her of being a “liar.”
There were 14 new labor protests in the second week of May, as well as another seven industrial actions which continued from before, according to the new report by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Union Watch.
From Ikhwan Web:
While the state security forces were detaining political analyst Abdul Rahman Salem in Daqahliya in the crackdown that included a number of supporters of MB candidates on May, 22, 2007; the state security officer attacked his family and intimidated women. This made his son Muhammad Abdul Rahman Salem, a student in the Faculty of Engineering Mansoura University, defend his brothers and his mother and stop in the officer who beat and insulted him and left him with a bundle of threats. Muhammad thought it all ended at this point.
On the following day, May, 23, 2007, while returning home in the village of Dangway Shirbin, he was stunned by three security bullies who beat him and took him to the state security headquarters in the city of Shirbin. As soon as he arrived, tortures started. He was handcuffed using iron till they swelled and he was hanged and beaten, not to mention descriptoion of the beating and torture.
The tortures asked him to insult himself and saying bad names like “” I am a woman, I am son of a bitch, I …………………. ). This made torture increase by the passage of time. Torture started from 11.00Am to 12.00 PM nonstop and without giving him and food or drink and even denying him the toilet.