aswan archives — 3arabawy

#Jan25 ثوار أسوان بالتحرير: سو يا سو مبارك حبسوه

3arabawy — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:32:30 +0000

Protesters came all the way from Aswan to Tahrir Square, chanting against Mubarak.

‘From Aswan we came.. No to Mubarak, No to Suleiman’

3arabawy — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:47:28 +0000

Workers

3arabawy — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:07:16 +0000

Muhammad and Islam are from Aswan, working at an Italian restaurant in Marsa Alam.

Mubarak’s Basij? وزارة المطوعين

3arabawy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:15:51 +0000

If the Saudis can inspire Obama, why can’t they inspire Hosni?

The Mubarak’s regime (routinely championed by the Western press, diplomats, and DC pundits as “secular”) has sent out its police troops in Aswan to hunt down those who dared to publicly break the Ramadan fast during daytime.

What is the difference between the police and the Gamaa Islamiya? Or has Habib el-Adly changed his ministry’s name to the Ministry of Motawa3een?

From the Nile Delta to Aswan

3arabawy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:38:14 +0000

The domino effect:

Inspired by the occupation of the Banha Technological Institute to turn it into a recognized higher education university faculty, the students of the Energy Institute in Aswan have started a sit-in with similar demands.

Riot in Aswan after police kill man

3arabawy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:21:11 +0000

From AFP:

Police fired tear-gas at about 2,000 rioters in the southern Egyptian town of Aswan on Sunday as they protested the police shooting to death of a bird-seller, a security official said.
Police with the anti-drug squad had mistaken the man, Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq, for a drug dealer.
“They were going to arrest a drug dealer. They went into the wrong apartment,” the official said.
Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported that the man had opened fire on police before being shot, although this was not possible to confirm.
On hearing of Abdel Razeq’s death, the protesters surrounded the hospital where his body was taken and pelted it with stones, smashing windows.
Riot police clashed with the demonstrators, firing tear-gas to disperse them. Four protesters were injured in the clash.

A report in Arabic is available here.

STRIKES: Aswan Educational Hospital staff and El-Wataniya Steel workers

3arabawy — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:15:00 +0000

Around 700 from the Aswan Educational Hospital employees went on strike today over incentives, allowances and to protest the collapse of the transportation services.

In other developments, around 3,500 workers from El-Wataniya Steel Company (owned by Nassif Sawiris) have started a strike today in the 6th of October City factory, and in the company’s workshops in Ain Sokhna, and Giza. No more info is available yet…

3,000 Aswan lawyers strike against police brutality

3arabawy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:15:11 +0000

Three thousand lawyers in Aswan started a strike yesterday, protesting police brutality, which left one of their colleagues beaten up and bruised, reports El-Badeel.

Clashes on Aswan Island

3arabawy — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:19:14 +0000

It is happening again, this time in Aswan.

Clashes broke out on the Aswan Island in Upper Egypt as a mobile phone company tried to install signal tower on the island. The residents, believing this would endanger their health and safety, fought the company officials and threw the construction materials for the tower in the Nile River.

Police detained 11 from the island’s youth, but around 1000 residents showed up in front of the prosecutor demonstrating, forcing the government to release the detainees, stop the building of the tower on the island, in exchange for the residents compensating the company for the construction materials they threw in the river.

More details in Arabic from Al-Masry Al-Youm.