Happy Birthday ya Hosni, says blogger Ahmad Sherif, who designed few banners to celebrate the dictator’s 79th birthday, coming up on May 4.
Industrial action updates
The textile workers at Mansoura-España Company in Daqahliya continue their strike, while their bretheren at the Trust Company in Suez are still staging their a sit-in.
More details from Al-Masry Al-Youm here.
Police detain Giza strikers
Agents from the Omraniya Police Station arrested yesterday a number of garbage collectors, who are involved in the ongoing strike over unpaid salaries, and transferred them to the 6th of October Prosecutor’s Office, on charges of illegal assembly.
The police had invited a number of strikers to the station for negotiations with the company managers. When the strikers arrived, they found out it was a trap, and the police detained them immediately.
More details from Al-Masry Al-Youm could be found in Arabic here.