A good background article from the Daily Star on the labor union elections, due to start tomorrow Sunday.
Rights group hold police responsible for sexual assaults
The Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence has issued a statement denouncing the failure of security forces to stop the sexual assaults against women last eid. The anti-torture clinic also mocked the Interior Ministry’s attempts to throw the blame on bloggers for “defaming the country’s image abroad.” Rather it’s the security services themselves who defame the country by sexually assaulting women during demos and in police stations, the statement charged.
HRW denounces Talaat Sadat’s jail sentence
The NYC-based rights watchdog has issued a statement denouncing the one-year-prison sentence handed down by a military court to Member of Parliament Talaat Sadat.
The nephew of Egypt’s late president Anwar el-Sadat had his immunity lifted, and was prosecuted by the military, for “defaming Egypt’s army.”