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.
هـي آه… بـلدنا لا
Egyptian bloggers will hold a “wedding party” in Talaat Harb Sq., Friday 4 May, 6pm, to celebrate the marriage of our future president Gamal Mubarak to the lovely Khadiga, which will be held simultaneously in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The bloggers’ protest party will be held under the slogan: “Heyya ah! Baladna La!” (basically: Go and marry her, but don’t marry our country!”
More details in Arabic.
Mabrouk lil 3aroussein.