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Slum residents are protesting now in front of the Press Syndicate

Posted on 15/07/200715/01/2021 By 3arabawy

I received news that Qale’t el-Kabsh slum residents are demonstrating now in front of the Press Syndicate in downtown Cairo.

UPDATE: I phoned an activist who’s present now at the protest. She says more than 200 persons are demonstrating, after they were told unofficially by the Prosecutor that he will not pursue the case, filed by the residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights, to investigate the process by which the local municipality and the Cairo Governorate authorities manipulated the compensations for the burnt down houses and those demolished. “There are dozens who are still sleeping in the street, waiting for flats,” the activist said. I could hear some of the chants over the phone: “Suzan (Mubarak)! Say the truth! Do we have flats or not?!”

“The Government (officials) are thieves and looters!”

There were also a chant about Gamal Mubarak, but neither I nor the activist on the phone could hear it properly.

For previous postings and videos of the Qale’t el-Kabsh slum protests, check this dossier.

Ad-Dostour journalists stage sit-in, threaten strike

Posted on 24/06/200710/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A group of journalists from the independent daily Ad-Dostour staged a sit-in Saturday at the Press Syndicate, protesting the refusal of the Press Syndicate Council to accept their membership applications during the review scheduled this Monday, citing bureaucratic reasons.

The journalists left the syndicate around 1am, and are expected to return again today, joined by their colleagues from Ad-Dostour (who are threatening to go on strike) and other publications in solidarity.

Electronic Press Freedom in Egypt

Posted on 16/06/200714/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A conference in defense of Electronic Press Freedom in Egypt is to be held at the Press Syndicate, Wednesday 20 June.

Speakers will include bloggers Alaa Seif, Nora Younis, Khadiga Malek and Abdel Moneim Mahmoud. The conference will start 7:30pm, following a half-hour sit-in in front of the syndicate to demand the release of detained journalists and denounce Mubarak’s regime’s crackdown on bloggers.

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