The BBC reports.
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Campus Updates
The profs are still determined to go ahead with their national strike on 23 March, despite coming under pressures from the regime.
For continuous updates, keep an eye on the Egyptian Universities Strike and Tadamon Blogs.
In other developments, the Socialists on campuses continue mobilizing in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, while in Alexandria, the Muslim Brotherhood students are facing continuous assaults by police-hired criminal thugs.
Syndicate membership isn’t for everyone
From the Daily News Egypt:
Last February Mervat Rashad, a journalist with Nahdet Misr newspaper, was attacked by a Wafd party member while she was at the party’s office seeking information for a story.
When she decided to file a complaint at the police station, she — not being a member of the Journalists’ Syndicate — was possibly subject to up to six months in jail for taking over a false vocation.
“Thousands of journalists could be legally accountable taking on a false vocation,” said Rashad.
Due to limited access to the Journalists’ Syndicate membership, many practicing journalists are working on an informal, illegal basis.
“It’s a disaster; a lot of young journalists — actually the building blocks of many newspapers — are not counted as journalists. … On the other side, half of those who have syndicate membership are technicians,” Sayed El-Turki, a journalist with Al-Dostour told Daily News Egypt.
Despite being a member in the syndicate, El-Turki joined non-members, forming a group called the Alliance of Young Journalists, to agitate for their right to join the syndicate.