#RevSoc archives — Page 63 of 105

Govt thugs assault Helwan U students

Posted on 13/10/200810/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Government thugs assaulted and severely injured two members of the Resistance Students on Helwan University campus, south of Cairo. Under the watchful eyes of the police, around 15 from the university’s office of student affairs and plainclothes thugs attacked nine RS activists when the latter tried to put up banners against the rising education fees.

Two students sustained injuries in their hands and necks, and were temporarily detained for an hour in the university’s security office, according to RS activist I spoke with earlier.

Gaza solidarity activists abused in custody

Posted on 06/10/200809/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A number of Gaza solidarity activists, kidnapped by the police this morning, have been released.

Grain Mills worker Nagy Rashad blogs about his experience with the police who also detained his seven and eight year old kids.

I spoke with Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who was released around two hours ago. He said he was kidnapped by the police six blocks away from the Press Syndicate around 10am. He was approached by a plainclothes agent who requested his National ID Card, while four other thugs surrounded him. He was taken to a truck with three others, which drove them to Tora’s Central Security Forces Camp, south of Cairo. Kamal said he was blindfolded and interrogated by a State Security officer, who slapped him on the face a number of times, punched him in the stomach, while shouting the worst verbal insults. Kamal met at least six other detainees inside who said they faced similar treatment. Around two hours ago, the detainees were taken, split into two groups and thrown out in a remote desert area near Maadi.

Khaled el-Sawy

Posted on 01/10/200809/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Actor Khaled el-Sawy addressing an audience of workers, farmers and fishermen, during Tadamon’s gathering, speaking about his experience as an activist with the Center for Socialist Studies.

Khaled compared the current times with his university days in the 1980s. “No students used to show up for demonstrations or strikes,” he said. “Everyone was scared. Today the situation is different. You see protests in the universities, in Mahalla, in the factories… among the peasants and fishermen that give you hope. The revival of the Socialist movement in Egypt was something I couldn’t have imagined in the past. Today it is a reality.”