Tag: left

Khaled Hamza released

Posted on By 3arabawy

Khaled Hamza called me five mins ago. He’s free.

Khaled was released from State Security Police HQ in Lazoughly around 11pm. He estimates there are still at least 300 MB detainees left behind in Mubarak’s prisons, besides those who were sentenced by the kangaroo military tribunal.

“What I’ve seen inside prison and how the detainees are treated, makes me more certain we are up against a government of gangsters and monsters,” Khaled said, calling on leftist activists to unite with the MBs against the dictatorial regime.

3000 Hearts

Posted on By 3arabawy

A 2004 art installation, by Mariana Viturro and Angelique-Marie Gonzales, commemorating the at least 3000 people who have died or been killed trying to cross the US-Mexico border since operation Gatekeeper began in 1994. Each heart represents one of them. [St. Peter’s Housing Committee, San Francisco.]

3 mil corazones

State Security pigs detain Grain Mills labor activist

Posted on By 3arabawy

I received the following message from Nagy Rashad, a worker at the South Cairo Grain Mills:

قام أمن شركة مطاحن جنوب القاهرة بتلفيق تهمة توزيع منشورات ( بيان الاستغاثة من العاملين بمطحن الشروق الى زملائهم بالشركة للتضامن معهم) وتم إرساله الى أمن الدولة بالسادس من أكتوبر وذلك منذ يوم السبت الماضى وقد شاهد رئيس اللجنة النقابية بالشركة سعد شكرى أمس الاثنين عندما كان ذاهب الى مقر مباحث امن الدولة للتحقيق معه هو الاخر بتهمة تحريض عمال مطحن الشروق على الاعتصام .
فشاهد العامل المقبوض علية أشرف عبداللة يركب سيارة الترحيلات ولم يتمكن من الحديث معه لمعرفة ما تم معه نرجو من جميع المهتمين مساعدة أشرف عبدالله فى محنتة

Ashraf Abdallah, a worker at the South Cairo Grain Mills, was detained and sent Saturday to the State Security Police bureau in the 6th of October City, after he was accused by the company security of distributing leaflets in solidarity with the Shorouq Grain Mills workers who had staged a sit-in. Ashraf was spotted Monday in a prison truck, by Sa’d Shoukri (the head of the Factory Union Committee) who was summoned to the SS bureau in the 6th of October City for interrogation over charges of inciting workers to demonstrate.

UPDATE: Ashraf has been released. ؤore details here.