Faces of a Crackdown
HRW video interviews with former MB detainees:
Human Rights Watch today released video interviews with eight Muslim Brotherhood members recounting earlier detentions. In the interviews, they describe torture and abuse suffered at the hands of security forces and their sentencing by military courts.
Human Rights Watch also listed the names of 223 members of the Muslim Brotherhood currently imprisoned for attempting to exercise their rights to freedom of association and expression. Human Rights Watch has collected names of more than 1,000 members of the group detained between March 2006 and March 2007.
Witch-hunt against Mahalla labor activists continues
The witch-hunt against textile labor activists in Ghazl el-Mahalla continues.
The latest victim is Kareem el-Beheiri, who was transferred two days ago from his job at the secretariat department to the spinning sector.
