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Police detain Giza strikers

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Agents from the Omraniya Police Station arrested yesterday a number of garbage collectors, who are involved in the ongoing strike over unpaid salaries, and transferred them to the 6th of October Prosecutor’s Office, on charges of illegal assembly.

The police had invited a number of strikers to the station for negotiations with the company managers. When the strikers arrived, they found out it was a trap, and the police detained them immediately.

More details from Al-Masry Al-Youm could be found in Arabic here.

Strikes in Suez, Daqahliya, Giza

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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.”

Police silence torture victims

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Mubarak’s police crusade to silence torture victims continues.

A Giza police force raided the house of a citizen Monday, around 8pm, and kidnapped him for an hour and half, to prevent him from speaking to Al-Mehwar satellite channel about his ordeal. The citizen, by the name Hanna, had been detained for two years on the roof top of a police station without a court order!

Also, two MPs charged yesterday that “Egyptian police stations have turned into slaughterhouses,” adding that “forced disappearances (of suspects) have become a phenomenon.”