The Torture in Egypt Blog compiled testimonies from Kafr Elw’s residents, on the assaults they faced from Mubarak’s pigs.
Tag: protests
Labor updates
The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued two reports, one on the protests by fish merchants in Suez, and the other on the downtown Cairo protests by 10th of Ramadan workers.
Also the Tadamon blog posted a solidarity call from the light bulbs manufacturing factory workers, owned by the Lebanese Egyptian tycoon Rami Lakkah, who are fighting for social insurance, and El-Badeel ran a report on escalating militancy among the northern fishermen, who are organizing a national conference next month.
Campus activism updates
Protests, statements over Palestine and skyrocketing tuition fees continue on Cairo University campus, led by the Socialist Students, Muslim Brothers, and the professors’ 9th of March Movement for the Independence of the Egyptian Universities.