Emad to be released 20 March
Driver Emad Kabeer, the Bulaq el-Dakrour torture victim, is to be released 20 March, reports Wael Abdel Fattah of Al-Fagr. Emad, currently locked up in Damanhour Prison, then should be able to attend on 2 April the trial of Police Captain Islam Nabih and Corporal Reda Fathi, who tortured and sexually abused him in Bulaq el-Dakrour Police Station.
Wael also reports that Emad’s lawyer Nasser Amin was intimidated in court by one of the associates of Islam’s father, General Nabih Abdel Salam, who was the Security Director of the Sohag province till 1997.
6000 Ghazl el-Mahalla workers resign from General Federation
I visited el-Mahalla el-Kobra on Friday.
Two of the December Ghazl el-Mahalla strike leaders told me that up till now around 6,000 workers have resigned from the government-controlled General Federation of Trade Unions, after the latter’s refusal to impeach the Factory Union Committee. At least 56 resignations a day are sent to the Federation, by registered mail (costing each worker LE2.5 per letter, according to the two labor activists; a huge sum for the workers there believe it or not!).