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Govt attack on labor activists condemned

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Socialist Alliance, Leftist Union, and civil society organizations are holding a press conference, Tuesday 10 April, 12 noon, at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, to brief reporters about the crackdown on the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services activists in Naga’a Hammadi, and the intimidation faced by labor activists in Mahalla.

The HMLC is located: 1 Souq el-Tawfiqiya St, Fifth Floor.

The Socialist Alliance and the Leftist Union (two umbrella organizations that coordinate between revolutionary and reformist leftist factions) have already come out with a statement in solidarity with the CTUWS.

And here is a Daily Star Egypt report on the government crackdown against Upper Egyptian labor activists:

A coalition of 37 civil society organizations has called on the governor of the Upper Egyptian province of Qena to re-open the offices of a workers rights organization which was closed by the city government of Nagaa Hammadi last week.
The local branch office of the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) was closed on Thursday, March 29, after an order to shut down the group was issued by the Chairman of the City, General Al Sherbeeny Hasheesh.
A broad range of Egyptian civil society organizations have endorsed the call for solidarity with the CTUWS, including the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, the Hisham Mubarak Law Center and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.

Govt crackdown on Mahalla labor activists

Posted on By 3arabawy

I received a very worrying statement from Kamal Abbas of the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services… After cracking down on the Center’s branch in Naga’a Hammadi, accusing its directors of “communism” and “spreading the culture of strikes,” the Ministry of Social Security sent a senior official on Tuesday evening to the Center’s branch in Mahalla and threatened to close it down, according to Kamal.

“It’s the same scenario of Naga’a Hammadi, being repeated again in Mahalla,” Kamal told me. “A wave of security crackdowns on the labor movement is to be expected.”

The Hisham Mubarak Law Center called for a meeting this Thursday 5pm, where activists will be discussing a solidarity campaign with the CTUWS. The center is located at: 1 Souq el-Tawfiqiya St., off Ramses Street.