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Egypt court sentences 24 to die over land clash

Posted on 19/05/200905/03/2021 By 3arabawy

An Egyptian court sentenced 24 people to death on Monday on murder charges for taking part in a gunfight last year in a dispute over agricultural land in the Nile Delta in which 11 people were killed, court sources said.
The gun battle erupted last March in the northern province of Beheira between two groups of private security men — employed by two rival associations that both claimed title to the land — when one side tried to take the land by force from the other.
As many as 27 people were hurt in the clashes over the 500 acre (200 hectare) plot.
Land disputes are not uncommon in Egypt, where arable land is limited to a thin sliver along the Nile and the river delta in the north. Many absentee landlords hire armed guards to drive out or prevent squatters from settling on the land.

SS throws dissident off balcony!

Posted on 19/05/200904/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Obama’s Egyptian allies in action: State Security police have thrown a Muslim Brotherhood activist off the fourth floor, while searching his house in Damanhour on Sunday.

Updates on the Tax Collectors: Free union committee established in Beheira

Posted on 12/10/200820/12/2020 By 3arabawy

Though they couldn’t make it to the meeting, the Beheira Real Estate Tax Collectors held a “phone conference” with their colleagues in Cairo. They phoned Kamal Abu Eita, who held his mobile phone close to a mike. Surprisingly, this “phone conference” worked (most of the phone conference I witnessed or took part in, with much more savvy technological devices, honestly, sucked)!

The Beheira tax collectors said they have publicly announced the formation of a free union committee, which already held its first meeting after they held elections in their province. This is the second branch for the General Union of Real Estate Tax Collectors – Under Establishment to be formally announced by the Real Estate Tax Collectors after Bani Sweif.

Abdel Nasser updated his colleagues about the situation in Bani Sweif. He said the corrupt, state-backed union officials are now totally smashed, as the free union activists managed to seize their funds and freeze their operations.