Mubarak’s police crackdown on the Muslim Brothers continues. Twenty two Alexandrian MB activists have been rounded up on Sunday morning in the North Western Coast, and are currently held in State Security branch in Marsa Matrouh, with no access to lawyers.
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Sinai Bedouins fear losing homes
From Al-Jazeera:
At least 700 Egyptian Bedouins have protested over fears the Egyptian government plans to remove their houses from an area along the border with the Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of police surrounded the Sinai desert Bedouins as they set several tyres ablaze in the Massura area, on the main road between Rafah and the nearby city of Al-Arish in Egypt.
The demonstrations followed a visit two days earlier by local officials who surveyed land and houses near the border.
This prompted fears among Bedouins that an anti-smuggling measure, that has not been implemented to date, could be used to remove their homes.
Security forces smash postal workers’ sit-in
Central Security Forces troops have stormed the Egyptian Postal Service building in Ramses Sq., around an hour ago, breaking the sit-in staged by 350 temporary postal workers.
The workers had been occupying their building since last Monday, demanding job contracts.
Security forces besieged the building yesterday, and took five workers to the Azbakiya Police Station accusing them of “theft” and “destruction of public property,” and threatened the rest of the workers of worse fate if the sit-in wasn’t disbanded. The workers refused, and insisted on continuing.
There are on arrests reported but what happened today in Ramses is a message by the regime to the rest of Egypt’s workers and labor activists.