Hossam el-Hamalawy
I’ve just received news from blogger Ibrahim el-Hodeiby that 14 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including two parliamentarians, were detained in the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya, roughly an hour ago. No more details available yet.
UPDATE: HR-INFO denounced the arrests.
Cairo-based journalists and photographers will stage a one-hour sit-in tomorrow Monday, 2pm, in front of the Press Syndicate, in solidarity with the BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza seven weeks ago.
Textile workers strikes and sit-ins continue in Suez and Daqahliya provinces, while 1400 garbage collectors went on strike yesterday in Giza, demanding their unpaid salaries. The garbage collectors assembled in front of their company, carrying banners with cartoons, depicting their company management as “Monster with Fangs,” and slogans like: “Cleaning Companies Launch Terrorist Campaigns (Against Workers)… Rescue Us from the Companies’ Oppression.”